endurableadj.
/ɛnˈdjʊərəb(ə)l/ 1. That can be endured, suffered, put up with.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > [adjective] > sufferable
sufferablea1340
supportablec1450
sustenable?1473
tolerablea1500
patible1623
bearable1656
endurable1800
the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [adjective] > forbearing or tolerant > endurable or tolerable
portablec1450
supportablec1450
tolerablea1500
durable1509
comportable1599
tractable1605
bearable1656
endurable1800
brookable1824
liveable1841
1800 W. Wordsworth Michael 454 There is a comfort in the strength of love; 'Twill make a thing endurable, which else, etc.
1823 C. Lamb On Some of Old Actors (new ed.) in Elia 306 His Iago was the only endurable one which I remember to have seen.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) II. xi. 458 Life had become at least endurable to her.
2. Able or likely to endure, durable. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring
longeOE
longsomeeOE
long of lifeOE
lastinga1225
cleaving1340
continualc1340
dwellingc1380
long-livinga1382
everlastingc1384
long-duringa1387
long-lasting?a1400
long-liveda1400
broadc1400
permanable?c1422
perseverant?a1425
permanentc1425
perdurable?a1439
continuedc1440
abiding1448
unremoved1455
eternalc1460
long-continued1464
continuing1526
long-enduring1527
enduring1532
immortal1538
diuturn?1541
veterated1547
resiant?1567
stayinga1568
well-wearinga1568
substantive1575
pertinacious1578
extant1581
ceaseless1590
marble1596
of length1597
longeval1598
diuturnal1599
nine-lived1600
chronic1601
unexhausted1602
chronical1604
endurable1607
continuant1610
indeflourishing1610
aged1611
indurant1611
continuatea1616
perennious1628
seculara1631
undiscontinueda1631
continuated1632
untransitory1632
long-spun1633
momently1641
stative1643
outliving1645
constant1653
long-descended1660
voluminousa1661
perduring1664
perdurant1671
livelong1673
perennial1676
longeve1678
consequential1681
unquenched1703
lifelong1746
momentary1755
inveterate1780
stabile1797
persistent1826
unpassing1831
all-time1846
year-long1846
teak-built1847
lengthful1855
long-term1867
long haul1873
sticky1879
week-to-week1879
perenduring1883
long-range1885
longish1889
long-time1902
long run1904
long-life1915
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 560 The Mule..ought to be brought vp in..hard places, that so the hoofes may grow hard and indurable.
1616 Withals' Dict. 549 Good manners are endurable, but beauty is lost by age.
1826 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 20 328 Rock-rooted castles, that seem endurable till the solid globe shall dissolve.
1885 Manch. Weekly Times 20 June (Suppl.) 4/3 This sheepskin is not nearly so strong and endurable as the material it is made to simulate.
1886 Northern Notes & Queries I. 51 The author has done a solid and endurable piece of work.
Derivatives
enˈdurableness n. rare The state or character of being endurable.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time
lenghc888
longnessOE
enduringc1374
length1388
continuing1398
long lasting?c1400
perdurability?a1425
perseverance?a1425
permanence1440
perdurablenessc1450
perdurationc1450
continuation1469
diuturnity?a1475
prolixityc1500
endurancea1513
sustention1515
continuance1552
long standinga1568
longitude1596
long-lastingness1598
sempiternity1599
consistence1606
persistence1621
long-livedness1652
abidingness1654
productedness1664
imperdibility1713
longiturnity1727
endurableness1795
lengthiness1829
endurability1837
perenniality1841
longevity1842
protractedness1855
enduringnessa1867
1795 S. T. Coleridge Plot Discovered 18 If its only excellence, if its whole endurableness consist in motion.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
<
adj.1607