supportable
- adjective
- /səˈpɔːrtəbl/
- It was a part of Cambridge where rent should be more supportable than in safer surroundings, perfect for the poor but honest student.
Examples
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However, SRE does not take over from a development team until a certain bar is met to ensure that a given service is supportable, maintainable, documented, and reliable.
Blog text (19) -
Again, I would not try to do things differently than recommended above. The little bit of cost and effort you might save could certainly cause you headaches when your deployment isn't supportable in the future.
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We've done all that we can do to try to get around the supportable features of the VMware hypervisor, but the end result is the same.
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The honest truth is that I encounter more people who suck at this, whether they have a CS degree or are high school dropouts, than people who build sustainable, supportable, awesome software.
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Entitled "Dictatorships and Double Standards," the article distinguished authoritarian governments, supportable because they often evolved into democracies, from totalitarian-communist governments that never did.
Academic text (1990) -
The President last year increased NIH funding for cancer research to meet a strategic objective, and a similar increase for HIV research, sustained over the years coinciding with the aims of the NHAS, is supportable.
Blog text (21) -
But to keep things Google-able and supportable by the helpdesk, user-visible numeric error codes are a MUST in any multilingual or localized software.
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People everywhere are happy and prosperous; education is universal; the arts are flourishing; the ghettos are being depopulated and demolished; the birthrate has dropped to a supportable level. What's not to like?
Fiction book (2000) -
Working two jobs is often challenging, but with careful planning, it is supportable.
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Although the conditions during the hike were tough, the group found them supportable and continued on.
Synonyms
Able to be put up with though not very good
Not too painful or unpleasant to handle
People can stand pain or hard work even if it is unpleasant
You can put up with it even if it is unpleasant
Antonyms
How Bearable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Supportable comes from support, from Latin sub- 'under' and portare 'to carry', and the ending -able means 'able'. Picture a person holding up a heavy bag: if they can keep holding it, the weight is 'supportable'. That's why supportable can mean 'able to be endured'.