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semibearable en · ADJ

Etymology

From semi- + bearable.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Somewhat but not entirely bearable
    • The semibearable heaviness of Philip Kaufman, at least in his last three features--Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wanderers, and The Right Stuff--is largely a matter of an only half-disguised didactic impulse, a notion that he's got something to teach us. 1988 February 12, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Unwarranted Heaviness”, in Chicago Reader: