unendurableformal

Thesaurus: synonyms, antonyms, and examples

good enough but not excellent
acceptableYour essay was acceptable, but I think you could have done better.
reasonableThey have a reasonable chance of winning.
adequateThe law provides adequate compensation for robbery victims.
passableI speak passable Spanish.
will doIt's not perfect, but it'll do.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Quite good, or not very good
acceptable
acceptably
adequacy
adequate
adequately
goodish
government
half decent
iffy
impure
passable
passably
patchily
patchiness
patchy
scratch
spotty
the/your average bearidiom
up to scratchidiom
weedy

tolerable | American Dictionary

tolerable
adjective
us/ˈtɑl·ər·ə·bəl/
of a quality that is acceptable but not wonderful:
A job in a theme park is tolerable only if you’re young.

Examples of tolerable

tolerable
The first treatment was tolerable, but predictably each treatment became more difficult.
Such enhancement and fulfillment go beyond merely securing the minima that make one's life more than tolerable and susceptible to active identification.
The practical question therefore is, how we can attain a tolerable approximation to such a solution.
The tradeoff would be quite tolerable, as any soup kitchen attendant, for example, would readily confirm.
This calculation inevitably introduces an element of inaccuracy, but there is evidence that it remains within tolerable limits, as the following example demonstrates.
Teachers are shown to recognize such inequities but to consider them temporar y and tolerable.
The participants hoped that in old age they would be happy and peaceful, or at least would find life tolerable.
But subjectively, the hardening and rationalizing make the misery more tolerable.
At the household level, remittances make the difference between poverty and a tolerable standard of living.
The aim should be to achieve a reduction in fit frequency to tolerable levels without unacceptable drug side-effects.
However, scope reconfigurations may be so infrequent in practice that this is tolerable for medium-size systems.
The resulting constant pressures and demoralizing environment extinguish many courtesies and kindnesses that make human life tolerable.
After all, the patient's experiential condition is tolerable if not actually pleasant, and drug euphoria eliminates competency.
Due to numeric-intensive nature of such analytical operations, only smaller sets of training examples can be produced over reasonably tolerable amounts of time.
While certain inequalities may seem tolerable, others are blatantly unjust.
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