tolerable

«tolerable» in Mova's school dictionary: fairly good, not great but good enough to be pleased with — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adjective (more tolerable, most tolerable)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tolerable means fairly good, not great but good enough to be pleased with. tree →

2) Tolerable means able to be put up with, though not nice. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a tolerable fortune is a fairly large amount of money, not a huge one; the word describes how good something is, not how much

examples

• The Russian merchant made a tolerable fortune. tree →
• The soup was tolerable, though a bit salty. tree →
• It was a tolerable day, not wonderful but not bad. tree →
• The noise was tolerable for one evening. tree →

note

nothing for maths; it gives a rough sense of quality and no exact amount.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «tolerable» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.