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

2) Tolerably means to a fair degree, not extremely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#x1)
- He met a man with a tolerably good horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#x2)
- The voyage was tolerably quiet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#x3)
- She can swim tolerably well for her age. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/tolerably/#x4)

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