bearable
adj/ˈbɛəɹəbəɫ/
Etymology From Middle English berable, equivalent to bear + -able.
1
Able to be borne; tolerable; endurable.
2
Able to be borne or carried; portable.
- A joint cause is neither necessary nor sufficient for an effect—for example, any one of six pallbearers is a joint cause of carrying a coffin bearable by four.2015, Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, Matthew C. Halteman, Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating:
- Derived terms
- bearableness, bearably, inbearable, semibearable, unbearable