sufferable
Meanings
Adjective Satellite
- capable of being borne though unpleasant
- "sufferable punishment"
Adj
- Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.
- Capable of being endured, tolerated, permitted, or allowed.
Origin / Etymology
PIE word
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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.
Synonyms
allowable, bearable, endurable, patient, permissible, supportable, tolerable, tolerant
Antonyms
impermissible, insufferable, intolerable, unallowable, unendurable
Scrabble Score: 18
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