supportable

English

Etymology

From Middle English supportable, equivalent to support +‎ -able, or possibly from Middle French supportable.

Adjective

supportable (comparative more supportable, superlative most supportable)

1. Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.

   Synonyms: defensible, excusable, justifiable, pardonable, tenable, upholdable

   Antonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unsupportable

   • 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Wedding”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC:

     A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.

2. Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.

   Synonyms: allowable, bearable, sufferable; see also Thesaurus:permissible, Thesaurus:tolerable

   Antonyms: insupportable, intolerable, unabideable, unbearable, unsupportable

   • 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i]:

     [...]supportable
     To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker
     Than you may call to comfort you, for I
     Have lost my daughter.

Derived terms

• supportableness
• supportably
• unsupportable

Translations

capable of being tolerated; endurable

• Russian: терпи́мый (ru) m (terpímyj), сно́сный (ru) m (snósnyj)

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• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} suportabil (ro)

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “supportable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “supportable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• postpuberal

French

Etymology

From supporter +‎ -able.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.pɔʁ.tabl/

Adjective

supportable (plural supportables)

1. bearable, supportable, tolerable

Further reading

• “supportable”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012