bearable
English
Etymology
From Middle English berable, equivalent to bear + -able.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɛəɹəbəɫ/
Adjective
bearable (not comparable)
- Able to be borne; tolerable; endurable.
- Able to be borne or carried; portable.
- 2015, Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, Matthew C. Halteman, Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating:
- A joint cause is neither necessary nor sufficient for an effect—for example, any one of six pallbearers is a joint cause of carrying a coffin bearable by four.
- 2015, Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, Matthew C. Halteman, Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating:
Derived terms
- bearableness
- bearably
- inbearable
- unbearable
Translations
able to be borne
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