bearable
- adjective
- /ˈbɛrəbəl/
- He thought the heat was bearable during the hike, thanks to the shade from the trees.
- make it bearable
- more bearable
- life became bearable
We've created a culture which for many people, it's not bearable to be present in, right?
- We've created a culture which for many people, it's not bearable to be present in, right?
- Having those spaces in your life can make the phoning it in bearable.
- Having all of you in such a real and concrete way made it a lot more bearable.
- And there's a series of questions we have to kind of ask ourselves, which is, is it bearable as it is today?
- Or are there things that you can do to make holidays more healthy, you know, not just bearable?
- But in in some had to go to drugs to make life bearable.
- I mean, nothing's going to change it, but playing this game might just make things feel a little bit more bearable.
- And Faulkner has managed to bring Benji back to the point where life actually is bearable and in fact satisfying.
- And depending on your genetics, depending on your circumstances, depending on all these things, you're going to fill it with something to make being human more bearable.
- So yeah, I love those gloves because they are all those things that make gloves bearable for me.
- You must hold the joy and the gratitude alongside of the grief, which makes the grief more bearable.
- That that could just be enough to make this bearable.
- All my shit is here and he so he he eventually and this is what like honestly made it bearable.
Examples
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The Bomiers tried to make my life as bearable as possible.
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Therefore, the army's assignment was "to bring tranquility and to reduce violence to a bearable level."
Academic text (1991) -
One in three would be bearable.
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So we want to make things bearable for us in this grief.
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It's painful, but it's bearable.
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In small doses, it's bearable, but not as a steady diet.
Fiction book (1995) -
Fruit like this makes summer bearable; I don't have air conditioning.
Fiction book (1995) -
The right ear had a constant, mild, bearable high-pitched sound that he could hear in a quiet room.
Academic text (1995) -
And Faulkner has managed to bring Benji back to the point where life actually is bearable and in fact satisfying.
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My temp biochemistry treatments made the full g-force bearable but not pleasant.
Fiction book (1993)
Synonyms
Able to be put up with though not very good
Not so serious or dangerous that someone cannot live through it
Able to be tolerated when it is unpleasant
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 Tolerable
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Bearable comes from the verb bear, which means 'to carry' or 'to accept', plus the ending -able, which means 'can be'. So something bearable is something you 'can carry' in your mind or body, that is, you can tolerate or endure it.