sufferable

comparative more sufferable · superlative most sufferable

1. archaicobsoleteAble to suffer, endure, or tolerate.

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   Synonyms: tolerant, patient, avuncular, broad-minded, catholic, forbearing, indulgent, latitudinarian · Antonyms: bigoted, insufferable, vulnerable

2. archaicobsoleteCapable of being endured, tolerated, permitted, or allowed.

   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.

   2001, Walter Prytulak, On Pain Suffering: Reminiscences, Musings and Reflections, page 58

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   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.

   1851 November 14, Herman Melville, “chapter 3”, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC

   Synonyms: endurable, tolerable, permissible, allowable, abideable, acceptable, admissible, allowable · Antonyms: insufferable, unendurable, intolerable, impermissible, unallowable