supportable

comparative more supportable · superlative most supportable

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

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

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

   Synonyms: defensible, excusable, justifiable, pardonable, tenable, upholdable · Antonyms: indefensible, insupportable, unsupportable

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

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

   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]

   Synonyms: allowable, bearable, sufferable, abideable, acceptable, admissible, allowable, permissible · Antonyms: insupportable, intolerable, unabideable, unbearable, unsupportable