tolerable; passable; mediocre (only just good enough; not good, but not extremely bad either)
eş: mehr schlecht als recht, einigermaßen
köken: From Middle High German līdelich (“patient, enduring”, later also “endurable”). Analysable as leiden (“to suffer”) + -lich (“-ly, -able”); compare similar English sufferable. There was also another adjective, Middle High German leitlich (“painful, sorrowful”), from Old High German leidlīh, which, at least in spelling, was merged with the above in early modern German and which might have…