Crossword-Solution: TOLERABLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tolerable | a. | Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally. |
| Tolerable | a. | Moderately good or agreeable; not contemptible; not very excellent or pleasing, but such as can be borne or received without disgust, resentment, or opposition; passable; as, a tolerable administration; a tolerable entertainment; a tolerable translation. |
We have 39 clues for the answer “TOLERABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Nothing much to write home about | 1 answer |
| It can be used | 1 answer |
| Barely OK | 2 answers |
| Not too awful | 3 answers |
| Okay but not great | 3 answers |
| Fair-to-middling | 4 answers |
| Fairly good. | 5 answers |
| endurable | 5 answers |
| Fair to middling | 6 answers |
| moderately good | 6 answers |
| CAPABLE OF BEING BORNE OR ENDURED | 11 answers |
| ABLE TO BE BORNE | 11 answers |
| Not bad | 16 answers |
| bearable | 18 answers |
| Habitable | 23 answers |
| tenantable | 23 answers |
| inhabitable | 23 answers |
| homelike | 25 answers |
| Middling | 25 answers |
| livable | 26 answers |
| So-so | 27 answers |
| roomy | 33 answers |
| Homey | 33 answers |
| Sheltered | 34 answers |
| o k | 35 answers |
| Protected | 38 answers |
| cosy | 42 answers |
| Comfy | 46 answers |
| conformant | 49 answers |
| Average | 51 answers |
| ___ all right. | 52 answers |
| respectable | 54 answers |
| seemly | 55 answers |
| Maidenly | 55 answers |
| O.K. | 56 answers |
| Passable | 58 answers |
| Adequate | 60 answers |
| Esteem-ed | 67 answers |
| Mediocre | 76 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
RAETE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with TOLERABLE (5)
GABRIEL’S RESOLVE—THE VISIT—THE MISTAKE The only superiority in women that is tolerable to the rival sex is, as a rule, that of the unconscious kind, but a superiority which recognizes itself may sometimes please by suggesting at the same time possibilities of impropriation to the subordinated man.
There had been a period when Hester was less alive to this consideration; or, perhaps, in the misanthropy of her own trouble, she left the minister to bear what she might picture to herself as a more tolerable doom.
Her sister, Miss Watson, a tolerable slim old maid, with goggles on, had just come to live with her, and took a set at me now with a spelling-book.
Moreover, I thought it possible that I could pass the time in the position suggested with some tolerable amusement.
For he was furnished with that completeness that if the coach-lamps had been blown and stormed out, which did occasionally happen, he had only to shut himself up inside, keep the flint and steel sparks well off the straw, and get a light with tolerable safety and ease (if he were lucky) in five minutes.
Quotes with TOLERABLE (3)
She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgement, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate de fois gras.
We reach in desperation beyond the fog, beyond the very stars, the voids of the universe are ransacked to justify the monster, and stamped with a human face. London is religions opportunity--not the decorous religion of theologians, but an anthropomorphic, crude. Yes, the continuous flow would be tolerable if a man of our own sort--not anyone pompous or tearful--were caring for us up in the sky.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (2002–2023).