Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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tolerable

UK /ˈtɒləɹəbl̩/ · US /ˈtɑləɹəbl̩/ adjective, adverb

Forms tollerable

  1. adjective Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable.
  2. adjective Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable, acceptable or so-so.
  3. adjective Such as to be tolerated or countenanced; permissible; allowable.
  4. adjective In fair health; passably well.
  5. adverb (dialect) tolerably; passably; moderately.

Synonyms

livable sufferable withstandable lackluster middling adequate good enough average comme ci comme ça crappy moderate decent indifferent meh mediocre mid no great shakes nothing to write home about not worth writing home about OK passable fair to middling

Antonyms

intolerable unendurable excellent terrible unacceptable healthy as a horse poorly insufferable insupportable nonsurvivable nontolerable unabideable

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English tolerable, borrowed from Middle French tolerable, from Latin tolerābilis.

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Capable of being borne or endured; supportable, either physically or mentally.
  2. adjective 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. Dryden.

Etymology [L. tolerabilis: cf. F. tolérable. See Tolerate.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tolerable”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tolerable” (best matches first).