Word Finder - tolerable

definition

Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable.

definition

Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable, acceptable or so-so.

definition

Such as to be tolerated or countenanced; permissible; allowable.

definition

In fair health; passably well.

definition

Tolerably; passably; moderately.

The crushing emotions from yesterday were more tolerable today.

Though stripped of her empire, Athens obtained very tolerable terms from her enemies.

There is a tolerable harbour, with a considerable fishing industry.

His chilling smile did nothing to make his statement more tolerable.

The House, tho small, is very tolerable ' .

Bring your asthma to tolerable levels with yoga.

It was very warm, but a cool wind coming down the valley kept things just tolerable.

Climate change will accelerate uncontrollably; billions of people will die this century and only the Arctic regions will remain tolerable for humans.

His model was Xenophon, whom he has imitated with a tolerable measure of success; he abstains from an excessive use of simile and metaphor, and his style is concise and simple.

No packages are allowed to contain less than the nominal quantity by more than twice the tolerable negative error.

Analgesics should be dosed adequately to assure that the pain is at least tolerable and frequently enough to avoid the anxiety that accompanies the anticipated return of pain.

However, just because they are more tolerable by the general public used does not mean they are a big improvement on kids cussing.

A cushioned footbed absorbs shock and makes even the faux-wood outsole tolerable to walk on.

Because these plans tend to be extremely restrictive, following the guidelines for any length of time is not often tolerable.

Small increments are more tolerable than great leaps.

Once all the tea is steeped, take out the bags and add some ice cubes until the water temperature is tolerable.

You may not love to slather the stuff on everyday, but L'Oreal sunscreen makes the process a little more tolerable.

Another form, aluminum zirconium tetrachlorohydrex glycine, is a more tolerable form of aluminum salt that is less likely to result in skin irritation.

Though the chronology of the period is somewhat uncertain, the date must be in the first half of the 9th century B.C. It is to be remembered, however, that important as this monument is for the development of the alphabet, and because it can be dated with tolerable accuracy, the dialect and alphabet of Moab are not in themselves proof for the Phoenician forms which influenced the peoples of the Aegean, and through them Western Europe.

My view is that the present balance is just about tolerable given the undemocratic nature of the upper house.

It is wrong to allow the wealthy to believe that the rest of society finds their existence desirable or even tolerable.

And the reading has started to grow on me and become more tolerable.

This might have been found more tolerable had it been due to honest competition.

It probably made the hardships of Grantham seem more tolerable.

The XLink AUP (Acceptable Use Policy) details what we at Team XLink will consider tolerable.

The Byzantine walls, pierced by three gates, are in tolerable preservation.

The vine is far more tolerant of cold than the olive, but to produce tolerable wine it demands, at the season of ripening, a degree of heat not much less than that needed by the the deeper valleys of the Alps, even in the interior of the chain, and up to a considerable height on slopes exposed to the sun.

These foods should be kept to a tolerable level.

However, just be sure your D vitamin or supplement does not exceed the tolerable levels.

Though the likelihood of falling ill from too much vitamin C is slim, the tolerable upper level for the vitamin has been set at 3000 milligrams daily.

Trade your woolen and heavy weight jackets for light weight summer jackets to make office days more tolerable.

One layer of ornaments in the box is ideal; two layers is tolerable.

This will help make a long cross-country trip much more tolerable.

This duty was about as pleasant as a stick in the eye in Dean's mind, but the interrupted householders were uniformly pleasant to him, making the necessary ordeal nearly tolerable.

But in the incessant travelling, drawing, collecting specimens and composition in prose and verse he had gained but a very moderate classical and mathematical knowledge when he matriculated at Oxford; nor could he ever learn to write tolerable Latin.

This mountainous character and the absence of any tolerable harbour - Pliny, in enumerating the islands of the Aegean, calls it "importuosissima omnium" - prevented it from ever attaining to any political importance, but it enjoyed great celebrity from its connexion with the worship of the Cabeiri, a mysterious triad of divinities, concerning whom very little is known, but who appear, like all the similar deities venerated in different parts of Greece, to have been a remnant of a previously existing Pelasgic mythology.

Excellent as a statement of the aim and method of Isocrates, and tolerable as a statement of those of Gorgias, these phrases are inexact if applied to Protagoras, who, making " civic virtue " his aim, regarded statesmanship and administration as parts of " civic virtue ", and consequently assigned to oratory no more than a subordinate place in his programme, while to the eristics - whose existence is attested not only by Plato, but also by Isocrates and Aristotle - and to Socrates - whom Grote himself accounts a sophist - the description is plainly and palpably inappropriate.

One of the last dramatists of the 16th century belonging to the old school was Simao Machado, who wrote the Comedy of Diu and the Enchantments of Alfea, two long plays almost entirely in Spanish, and full of digressions only made tolerable by the beauty of their lyrics.

This might have been more tolerable if the Lancastrian party had shown any governing power; but both while Somerset was their leader, down to his death in the first battle of St Albans, and while iii 1456-1459 Exeter, Wiltshire, Shrewshury and Beaumont were the queens trusted agents, the condition of England was de.

A ' tolerable ' leader is required to prevent a further hardening of the anti-Conservative vote.

We managed to make a serious situation more tolerable than we had ever expected previously.

Today I inspected our Karelian fortifications and on the whole found the situation tolerable.

The existing 2 per cent trend rate of UK productivity advance is in fact quite tolerable.

These would be the levels to be achieved in order to bring human exposure below the tolerable weekly intake of 14 pg dioxins.

The amount of personal effort needed to keep up a tolerable standard is really quite, quite, trivial.

The annual rate of soil loss in the SALT farm is 3.4 metric tons per hectares, well within the tolerable limits.

Additions had been made in 1827 to Kings College buildings which were in a tolerable state of repair.

The House, tho small, is very tolerable '.

If you experience stomach upset or diarrhea, cut back to the last tolerable dose.

The majority of Antarctica cruises sail exclusively between November and February when the temperatures are a tolerable 20 to 50 degrees.