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adj
Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, obsolete
Synonyms: tolerant, patient, avuncular, broad-minded, catholic, forbearing, indulgent, latitudinarian, laissez faire, lenient, liberal, open-handed, open-minded, permissible, permissive, sufferable, resistant
Antonyms: bigoted, insufferable, vulnerable
adj
Capable of being endured, tolerated, permitted, or allowed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: archaic, obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: endurable, tolerable, permissible, allowable, abideable, acceptable, admissible, sufferable, supportable, bearable, livable, portable, survivable, withstandable
Antonyms: insufferable, unendurable, intolerable, impermissible, unallowable
adjective satellite
capable of being borne though unpleasant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: bearable, endurable, supportable
Antonyms: none provided
History
PIE word *upó 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.
