Adjective: tolerable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more tolerable |
| Superlative | most tolerable |
Sample Sentences
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A cabled despatch is better than nothing, but a voicecast of tolerable quality is preferable, and in certain types of story a voicecast with live or recorded actuality is best of all. [1964, European Broadcasting Union, EBU Review: Programmes, Administration, Law, volume 83, page 22:]
Adjectives inflected like tolerable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English tolerable, borrowed from Middle French tolerable, from Latin tolerābilis. See: Latin Adjectives '
tolerābilis'.