tolerable
adjective
tol·er·a·ble
ˈtä-lə-rə-bəl 
ˈtäl-rə-;
ˈtä-lər-bəl
1
: capable of being borne or endured
tolerable pain
2
: moderately good or agreeable : passable
a tolerable singing voice
Examples of tolerable in a Sentence
The heat was tolerable for only a short time.
stubbing your toe is at least a more tolerable pain than breaking your foot
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Ayesha Gulzar, Verywell Health, 8 Sep. 2025
But those things don’t add up to make the Countryman’s problems become tolerable quirks.
—New Atlas, 7 Sep. 2025
Side effects can vary too, sometimes making one medication more tolerable than the another.
—Deidre McPhillips, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2025
Even though the weather is much more tolerable than in the hot summer months, once that fall feeling arrives, the end of mowing the grass for the year is in sight.
—Karen Brewer Grossman, Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2025
See All Example Sentences for tolerable
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“Tolerable.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tolerable. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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