tol·er·a·ble

(tŏl′ər-ə-bəl)

adj.

1. Capable of being tolerated; endurable: found the workload tolerable and so kept the job.

2. Acceptable but not superior; passable: "This encouraged me to think I might possibly in time come to be a tolerable English writer" (Benjamin Franklin). See Synonyms at average.

tol′er·a·bil′i·ty, tol′er·a·ble·ness n.

tol′er·a·bly adv.

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Adv.

tolerably - in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably"

acceptably, so-so

intolerably, unacceptably - to an unacceptable degree; "The percentage of lead in our drinking water is unacceptably high"

Translations

discretamente

tolerably

[ˈtɒlərəblɪ] ADV (= moderately) [good, comfortable] → medianamente
a tolerably good player → un jugador pasable
it is tolerably certain that → es casi seguro que ...

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tolerably

[ˈtɒlərəbli] adv
tolerably good → tolérable

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

tolerably

adv → ziemlich; tolerably well → ganz leidlich or annehmbar, ziemlich gut; they are tolerably well-educated → sie sind leidlich gebildet or (rather well) → ziemlich gebildet

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tolerably

[ˈtɒlərəblɪ] adv (good, comfortable) → abbastanza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

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Belleforet, Father Le Juge, and Corrozet affirm that it was picked up on the morrow, with great pomp, by the clergy of the quarter, and borne to the treasury of the church of Saint Opportune, where the sacristan, even as late as 1789, earned a tolerably handsome revenue out of the great miracle of the Statue of the Virgin at the corner of the Rue Mauconseil, which had, by its mere presence, on the memorable night between the sixth and seventh of January, 1482, exorcised the defunct Eustache Moubon, who, in order to play a trick on the devil, had at his death maliciously concealed his soul in his straw pallet.

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And to the pang of a friend disgracing herself and sunk in her esteem, was added the distressing conviction that it was impossible for that friend to be tolerably happy in the lot she had chosen.

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"I may be a baby," said the Mouse, gravely, as he passed outward through the forest of shins, "but I know tolerably well how to diagnose a volcano."

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Fish--sole, salmon, or whiting--usually tolerably good.

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Her feelings are tolerably acute, and she is so charmingly artless in their display as to afford the most reasonable hope of her being ridiculous, and despised by every man who sees her.

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"Volumnia," replies Sir Leicester, who has a list in his hand, "we are doing tolerably."

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"Pretty well, my dearI hopepretty well.I do not know but that the place agrees with her tolerably."

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But Sunday made her a very creditable and tolerably cheerful-looking Mrs.

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"No; you know I have a tolerably handsome house; and that house composes the better part of my property."

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Ostensibly she went to get some shades of Berlin wool, at a tolerably respectable shop that was chiefly supported by the ladies of the vicinity: really--I trust there is no breach of charity in supposing that she went with the idea of meeting either with the Rector himself, or some other admirer by the way; for as we went along, she kept wondering 'what Hatfield would do or say, if we met him,' &c.

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The difference was finally adjusted, by the man who had come out of the cabin knocking the other into it head first, and taking the helm into his own hands, without evincing the least discomposure himself, or causing any in his friend, who, being of a tolerably strong constitution and perfectly inured to such trifles, went to sleep as he was, with his heels upwards, and in a couple of minutes or so was snoring comfortably.

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