bearable
[bair-uh-buh l]
- capable of being endured or tolerated; endurable.
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Origin of bearable
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Related Words
livablemanageabletolerablesatisfactorypassableacceptableadmissibleallowablesupportablesufferablesustainableExamples from the Web for bearable
Contemporary Examples
Just a gradual, bearable, steady impoverishment in a world where savings linked to the value of paper money languish.
When the stages of life are followed in order: birth, aging, illness, and death—they are bearable.
Japanese Horror Director Tackles the 3/11 TsunamiJake Adelstein, Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky
February 23, 2013
In retrospect, my wife—journalist, mother, yoga phenom—clearly had a somewhat extreme interpretation of bearable.
Historical Examples
The weather was pretty calm, and the cold without breeze was bearable.
The English at the North PoleJules Verne
If the country about were agreeable—nay, if it were bearable!
The temperature was just bearable, but the road was toilsome from its uneven character.
In Search of the CastawaysJules Verne
If I had not a good heart, I should not be bearable any where.
Louis XIV., Makers of History SeriesJohn S. C. Abbott
I don't see how, to such a stormy creature as Emily, he could have been bearable.
bearable
- endurable; tolerable
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