sufferable
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sufferable
- /ˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/ US, UK
- /ˈsʌfɹəb(ə)l/ US, UK
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From Middle English sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”), from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)), from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’). Sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as suffer + -able.
adjective more sufferable · most sufferable
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Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.
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Similar: tolerant, patient, avuncular, broad-minded, catholic, forbearing, indulgent, latitudinarian, laissez faire, lenient, liberal, open-handed · Opposite: bigoted, insufferable, vulnerable
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Capable of being endured, tolerated, permitted, or allowed.
Still, looking round me again, and seeing no possible chance of spending a sufferable night unless in some other person’s bed, I began to think that after all I might be cherishing unwarrantable prejudices against this unknown harpooneer.
Similar: endurable, tolerable, permissible, allowable, abideable, acceptable, admissible, sufferable, supportable, bearable, livable, portable · Opposite: insufferable, unendurable, intolerable, impermissible, unallowable
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