TOLERABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tolerably mean? 

• TOLERABLY (adverb)
  The adverb TOLERABLY has 1 sense:

1. in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner

  Familiarity information: TOLERABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TOLERABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner

Synonyms:

acceptably; so-so; tolerably

Context example:

she plays tennis tolerably

Antonym:

intolerably (to an unacceptable degree)

Pertainym:

tolerable (capable of being borne or endured)

 Context examples 

Though tolerably secure of not seeing Mr. Crawford again, she could not help being low.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

My mother is tolerably well, I trust; though her spirits are greatly shaken.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

“Thank you, sir, Mr. Steerforth is tolerably well.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And now I can tolerably comprehend his behaviour.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I could now speak the language tolerably well, and perfectly understood every word, that was spoken to me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

But poor Mrs Clay who, with all her merits, can never have been reckoned tolerably pretty, I really think poor Mrs Clay may be staying here in perfect safety.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

To one of several international spies and secret agents, whose names are tolerably familiar to me.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was myself tolerably patient, and half inclined again to throw aside doubt and to accept Van Helsing's conclusions.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The floor was a little raised, so that it was kept perfectly dry, and by its vicinity to the chimney of the cottage it was tolerably warm.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)