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supportable en · ADJ

Etymology

From Middle English supportable, equivalent to support + -able, or possibly from Middle French supportable.

Meanings

1. Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
   • A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Wedding”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:
2. Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.
   • [...]supportable To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker Than you may call to comfort you, for I Have lost my daughter. 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

Forms

Antonyms

insupportable · unsupportable · insupportable · unbearable · unsupportable · indefensible · unabideable · intolerable

Deriveds

supportably · supportableness · unsupportable

Synonyms

defensible · bearable · tenable · excusable · endurable · livable · portable · supportable · pardonable · tolerable · admissible · allowable · supportable · tolerable · sufferable · acceptable · withstandable · justifiable · abideable · sufferable · bearable · upholdable · sufferable · allowable · survivable · abideable · permissible

Translations (2)

ru терпи́мый (capable of being tolerated; endurable) · ru сно́сный (capable of being tolerated; endurable)