Tolerably

Definition: Tolerably

Tolerably

Adverb

1. In a tolerable manner; "she did it well enough".

2. In an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner; "she plays tennis tolerably".

Date "tolerably" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Tolerably

Synonyms: acceptably (adv), so-so (adv), to a tolerable degree (adv), to an adequate degree (adv), well enough (adv). (additional references)

Antonym: unacceptably (adv). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Health	On one's legs; sound as a roach, sound as a bell; fresh as a daisy, fresh as a rose, fresh as April; hearty as a buck; in fine feather, in high feather; in good case, in full bloom; pretty bobbish, tolerably well, as well as can be expected.
Mediocrity	Verb: jog on; go fairly, go quietly, go peaceably, go tolerably, go respectably, get on fairly, get on quietly, get on peaceably, get on tolerably, get on respectably.
Unimportance	Adverb: slightly; Adjective: rather, somewhat, pretty well, tolerably. for aught one cares.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Tolerably

English words defined with "tolerably": creditably ♦ respectably. (references)

Specialty definitions using "tolerably": INFERIAE ♦ teetotaler ♦ Wheat. (references)

Etymologies containing "tolerably": Fairish. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	And now I can tolerably comprehend his behaviour.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	I had ceased to be a writer of tolerably poor tales and essays, and had become a tolerably good Surveyor of the Customs.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	He had a tolerably complete wardrobe.
Gulliver's Travels	Swift, Jonathan	I could now speak the language tolerably well, and perfectly understood every word that was spoken to me.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Lexicography	Devil's Dictionary	TEETOTALER, n. One who abstains from strong drink, sometimes totally, sometimes tolerably totally.
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Tolerably" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Tolerably" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	47	49,740

Expressions using "tolerably": get on tolerably ♦ go tolerably ♦ tolerably well. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "tolerably"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		njëfarësoj (fairly, middling, passable, passably, so so), çka (nil, so so, that, tolerable, what). (various references)

Bulgarian		търпимо, поносимо, доста (considerably, distinctly, great deal, half, nice and, pretty, quite, rather, reasonably, some, somewhat, well). (various references)

Chinese		能忍受地. (various references)

Czech		snesitelnì, obstojnì (fairly). (various references)

Finnish		siedettävästi, kutakuinkin (fairly), kuta (fairly), auttavasti (fairly). (various references)

German		ziemlich (a little, almost, comparatively, considerable, enough, fair, fairly, fitting, most, nearly, pretty, proper, quite, rather, reasonable, reasonably, relatively, sizable, sizeable, some, somewhat, sufficient, sufficiently, to some extent). (various references)

Greek		υποφερτώσ (passably, sufferably, supportably), υποφερτά (passably, sufferably). (various references)

Hungarian		tûrhetõen (fairly). (various references)

Italian		abbastanza (enough, fairly, quite, rather, relatively, sufficiently). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		結構 (architecture, construction, delicious, nice, splendid, sweet, well enough, wonderful). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		けっ�"う (architecture, cancellation of lecture or class, carrying out, circulation, construction, delicious, doing, nice, splendid, suspension of service, sweet, well enough, wonderful). (various references)

Korean		웬만하게. (various references)

Manx		castreycair (middling, passable, tolerably well). (various references)

Pig Latin		olerablytay

Romanian		tolerabil (possible, tolerable), suportabil (bearable, endurable, possible, supportable, tolerable). (various references)

Russian		сносно (fairly well, tolerably well). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		podnošljivo. (various references)

Spanish		tolerablemente. (various references)

Swedish		tämligen (fairly, moderately, pretty, rather), någorlunda (a little, fairly, fairly good, in a fashion, moderately, passably, pretty, rather, some, somewhat, to some extent), ganska (enough, fairly, kind of, middling, plenty, pretty, quite, rather, reasonably, some, to a degree, very). (various references)

Turkish		iyice (clean, complete, completely, fair, fully, goodish, jolly well, over, proper, properly, quite, rather good, thoroughly, tolerable, well, wide, widely), bayağı (banal, camp, cheap, coarse, coarse grained, common, common as dirt, commonplace, corrupt, dastardly, debased, goodish, inferior, lewd, little, low camp, low class, no class, ordinary, plebeian, pretty, prosaic, quite, rather, run-off-the-mill, shoddy, tawdry, vulgar), aşağı yukarı (about, approximately, approximative, around, circa, close on, in the neighborhood of, in the neighbourhood of, in the rough, just about, more or less, nigh, pretty much, rough, roughly, roundly, some, something like, sub-, thereabout, to and fro). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	tolerabilius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words ending with "tolerably": intolerably. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Tolerably" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tolerablr. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-e-l-l-o-r-t-y"
	-1 letter: balloter, lobately, oblately.
	-2 letters: alertly, bloater, loyaler, reallot, tallboy, tollbar, trolley.
	-3 letters: baller, ballet, ballot, barely, barley, baryte, betray, bleary, boatel, boater, bolter, borate, boreal, brolly, elytra, labret, lately, lealty, lobate, loreal, lyrate, oblate, orally, rallye, really, realty, rebato, taller, toller, trebly, trolly.
	-4 letters: abler, abort, alert, alley, allot, alloy, alter, artel, atoll, baler.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-e-l-l-o-r-t-y"
	+2 letters: elaborately, intolerably.
	+3 letters: tolerability.
	+4 letters: obstetrically, solderability.
	+5 letters: barometrically, blepharoplasty, bolometrically, intolerability, thermolability.
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