| 单词 | tolerable |
| 释义 | tolerable (once / 248 pages) 1adj 2adj Something that's tolerable is something you're able to live with. The best thing you can say about sleeping in a tent with your younger siblings might be that it's tolerable. If you can tolerate something, or put up with it, it's tolerable. You can also use this adjective to mean "good enough" or "adequate." If your waiter asks how your meal is and you answer, "The pizza is tolerable," you're not giving a rave review; you're basically saying, "It's average" or "It's edible, but nothing special." Tolerable comes from the Latin tolerabilis, "that may be endured." WORD FAMILYtolerable: intolerable, intolerably, tolerablest, tolerably+/intolerable: intolerablest/tolerance: overtolerance, tolerances/tolerate: tolerable, tolerance, tolerated, tolerates, tolerating, toleration/toleration: tolerations USAGE EXAMPLES“It smells tolerable, for a short period of time.” Washington Post(Dec 07, 2016) Within a week, the pain had become tolerable, though he still walked tentatively. Slate(Nov 21, 2016) Over the course of a few months, these headaches went from being occasional and tolerable to daily and excruciating. New York Times(Nov 04, 2016) 1 adj capable of being borne or endured 2the climate is at least tolerable Syn|Ant allowable, permissible that may be permitted especially as according to rule bearable, endurable, sufferable, supportablecapable of being borne though unpleasant resistant, tolerantable to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress intolerable, unbearable, unendurable incapable of being put up with impermissiblenot permitted bittervery difficult to accept or bear impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferableused of persons or their behavior unsupportablenot able to be supported or defended adj about average; acceptable Syn adequate, fair to middling, passable satisfactory giving satisfaction |
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