sufferable

English

Etymology

suffer +‎ -able

Adjective

sufferable (comparative more sufferable, superlative most sufferable)

1. (obsolete) Able to suffer or endure; patient.
2. Capable of being tolerated, endured or permitted; allowable; tolerable.
   • 2001, Walter Prytulak, On Pain Suffering: Reminiscences, Musings and Reflections (page 58)

     Greek philosophers put it bluntly: "The best thing in the world is not to be born; but the second best is to die." Up to the point of suicide the suffering continues to be sufferable.

Antonyms

• insufferable

Related terms

• sufferableness
• sufferably

References

• “sufferable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “sufferable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.