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adjectivecapable of being endured or tolerated; endurable. Origin of bearableFirst recorded in 1540–50; bear1 + -able OTHER WORDS FROM bearablebear·a·ble·ness, nounbear·a·bly, adverbWords nearby bearablebeanstalk, Bean Town, bean tree, bean weevil, bear, bearable, bear a grudge, bear animalcule, bearbaiting, bearberry, bearcat Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for bearableJust a gradual, bearable, steady impoverishment in a world where savings linked to the value of paper money languish. Keeping Your Faith (In Gold)|David Frum|April 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST When the stages of life are followed in order: birth, aging, illness, and death—they are bearable. Japanese Horror Director Tackles the 3/11 Tsunami|Jake Adelstein, Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky|February 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST In retrospect, my wife—journalist, mother, yoga phenom—clearly had a somewhat extreme interpretation of bearable. My Accidental Home Birth|Jim Sciutto|November 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST What is it, then, that makes this conflict not only possible and bearable but even pleasant? The Note-Books of Samuel Butler|Samuel Butler
It seemed as if, had he come with us, everything would have been right, or at least bearable. The Chauffeur and the Chaperon|C. N. Williamson The want of sleep conduces to an unnatural condition of the mind, under which these awful facts are bearable to the bereaved. The Johnstown Horror|James Herbert Walker His mother's anger was bearable, but the Colonel's very weakness was a deadly weapon. The Hero|William Somerset Maugham The certainty would have been bearable; I had courage to face ruin. Helmet of Navarre|Bertha Runkle
British Dictionary definitions for bearableDerived forms of bearablebearably, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to bearablelivable, manageable, tolerable, satisfactory, passable, acceptable, admissible, allowable, supportable, sufferable, sustainable |