bearable
/ˈbɛːrəb(ə)l
/adjective
Able to be endured: things to make life in the tropics more bearable...
- Drinkers will raise their glasses to toast brave children and make their suffering more bearable.
- It is a credit to the cast that they manage to make this bearable.
- You have made life in this strange existence almost bearable and you must accept my apologies.
Synonyms
tolerable, endurable, supportable, sufferable, brookable, sustainable;
acceptable, admissible, passable, manageable
Derivatives
bearability
- Avramov said basic principles of taxation policy have been violated and the degree of bearability has been passed, which would result in tax evasion and the small-scale business will go to the ‘grey zone’.
- Overpriced in my opinion, but at least on the brink of bearability, even with my curmudgeonly grumbling.
- Air travel was already at the ragged edge of bearability before this latest threat arose.
bearably
- My recitation went bearably, apart from a little trip at an uncertain point.
- But no, it alternates between providing only cold showers, and providing (if the hot tap is jammed fully open) just bearably tepid showers.
- They don't recommend their ‘mud season’ in late winter/early spring, but their summers are bearably hot.