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Definition of Tolerably
1. Adverb. In an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner. "She plays tennis tolerably"
Partainyms: Acceptable, Tolerable
Antonyms: Unacceptably, Intolerably
Definition of Tolerably
1. Adverb. In a tolerable manner; of something that can be tolerated. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tolerably
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolerably
Literary usage of Tolerably
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe (1895)
"infected, viz., Cripplegate, Clerkenwell, Bishopsgate, and Shoreditch, yet still
all the rest were tolerably well: for example :— From the 25th July to the ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"The judgment of foreign nations may be accepted as a tolerably (air sample of
the judgment of posterity. Already, both on the Continent and in the United ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"... where we found tolerably clear water, caused by the rapidly-flowing river of
the same name. The same evening we also doubled Cape ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... move him strongly, which the following passage evinces ; hut this sluggishness
or indifference to life is felt, we shall soon show, in a tolerably ..."
5. Farthest North: Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship by Fridtjof Nansen, Otto Neumann Sverdrup (1898)
"... ON tolerably GOOD GROUND channel, which we proposed to cross in the same way.
We reached the other side with the first sledge safely enough, ..."
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