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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#m1)

2) Tolerable means able to be put up with, though not nice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#x1)
- The soup was tolerable, though a bit salty. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#x2)
- It was a tolerable day, not wonderful but not bad. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#x3)
- The noise was tolerable for one evening. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/#x4)

### 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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerable/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.