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supportable

supportable

1 5.4
Able to be tolerated when it is unpleasant
  • adjective
  • /səˈpɔːrtəbl/
translation icon : soportable
  • It was a part of Cambridge where rent should be more supportable than in safer surroundings, perfect for the poor but honest student.

Examples

  • 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.

    Blog text (8)
  • 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.

    Blog text (19)
  • 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.

    Blog text (29)
  • 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.

    Blog text (31)
  • 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.

  • Although the conditions during the hike were tough, the group found them supportable and continued on.

Synonyms

tolerable
vssupportable
31 3.5

Able to be put up with though not very good

means acceptable especially when unpleasant or difficult
bearable
vssupportable
25 3.2

Not too painful or unpleasant to handle

is more about acceptance in difficult situations
endurable
vssupportable
1 5.1

People can stand pain or hard work even if it is unpleasant

focuses on accepting difficulty rather than long resistance
sufferable
vssupportable
7.1

You can put up with it even if it is unpleasant

is less about pain and more about being acceptable

Antonyms

256 3.2

Not good enough or not allowed by rules

How Bearable

supportable
1 5.4
tolerable
31 3.5
unbearable
89 3.9

Surface Forms

supportable positive

Morphology

supportable = support (transparent) = support + able

The adjective is formed from the verb 'support' plus the productive suffix '-able' meaning 'able to be (supported)', which directly yields the given meaning.

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'.