endurable
/ɪnˈdjʊərəb(ə)l
/ /ɛnˈdjʊərəb(ə)l / /ɪnˈdʒɔːrəb(ə)l / /ɛnˈdʒɔːrəb(ə)l /adjective
Able to be endured; bearable: my journey was long but endurable...
- The smell in the wards was so offensive as to be scarcely endurable even by the oldest medical officers’.
- What they don't understand is that rapid, steady and endurable economic growth needs to be sustained by an open and transparent democratic political system.
- You will even be able to buy an air-conditioner to make the summer heat more endurable.
Synonyms
bearable, tolerable, supportable, manageable, sufferable, sustainable
rare brookable
Derivatives
endurability
- He created an atmosphere in which research was the only thing that mattered, so that his research group was outstanding in size, productivity, and endurability.
- The deer has good endurability relative to the hounds in that it can maintain a reasonable pattern of escape and recovery for a prolonged period of time.
- As far as I can tell, the decisive factor is what I call endurability: that is, the ability to deal effectively with uncertainty, rejection, and disappointment.
- multistable
- multistage
- multistaged
- multistaging
- multistandard
- multi-starrer
- multistart
- multistate
- multi-station
- multi-stemmed
- multistep
- multistorey
- multistrand
- multistranded
- multistratal
- multistratified
- multistriate
- multi-strike
- multisubunit
- multisulcate
- multisyllabic
- multisyllable
- multisynaptic
- Multisync
- multi-sync