tolerably

«tolerably» in Mova's school dictionary: fairly well or quite; not very well, but well enough — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

adverb (more tolerably, most tolerably)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tolerably means fairly well or quite; not very well, but well enough. tree →

2) Tolerably means to a fair degree, not extremely. tree →

sense in the lessons

in stories, a man on a tolerably good horse has a horse that is fairly good, not the finest; the word softens praise

examples

• I get on tolerably at school. tree →
• He met a man with a tolerably good horse. tree →
• The voyage was tolerably quiet. tree →
• She can swim tolerably well for her age. tree →

note

nothing for maths; it describes how well something is done and gives no number.

Trees and pragmatics

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