endurable

Examples

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• Now, the question is whether air travel will remain endurable.

  Blog text (32)

• The trying may translate into more endurable circumstances around work.

  DoctorRamani

• Miss Charming, I hope your travel was endurable.

  Austenland (2013)

• I believe that the way Christ makes our pain more endurable is by turning it into love, and by doing so we can experience peace, even in the midst of our pain.

  Blog text (28)

• In 1970, it would have caused an immense but endurable catastrophe.

  Fiction book (2000)

• Most along the East Coast, though, grappled with an experience like Bertha Weismann of Bridgeport, Conn. -- frightening, inconvenient, and financially problematic but, overall, endurable.

  Blog text (26)

• Despite the harsh weather, the hike through the mountains was endurable for the experienced travelers.

• The pain from the injury was endurable after taking some medicine and resting.

Synonyms

T

tolerable

vsendurable

31 3.5

Able to be put up with though not very good

implies simply putting up with unpleasantness rather than strong coping

B

bearable

vsendurable

25 3.2

Not too painful or unpleasant to handle

is the same idea but presented in more formal wording

S

survivable

vsendurable

3 4.1

Not so serious or dangerous that someone cannot live through it

is about handling unpleasantness rather than getting through life threatening danger

S

supportable

vsendurable

1 5.4

Able to be tolerated when it is unpleasant

focuses on putting up with difficulty rather than on being accepted

S

sufferable

vsendurable

7.1

You can put up with it even if it is unpleasant

means putting up with discomfort rather than fixing its cause

Antonyms

U

unbearable

89 3.9

Too painful or unpleasant to stand

I

intolerable

42 4.9

So unpleasant or painful that you cannot bear it

How Tolerable

endurable

1 5.1

bearable

25 3.2

tolerable

31 3.5

difficult

386 2.1

intolerable

42 4.9

Surface Forms

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Etymology