Definition of bearable
: capable of being borne
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Examples of bearable in a Sentence
He's in a great deal of pain, but the medication makes it bearable.
the pain from a sprained ankle is annoying but bearable
Recent Examples of bearable from the Web
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Having something worthwhile to do, inmates say, makes the long hours bearable.
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Still others were aimed only at making the flooding more bearable.
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Options for making such long flights more bearable would include introducing a new four-class structure, with part of the cargo hold utilized for sleeping berths, Joyce said.
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To turn him into a rainbow is to treat his suffering as a bargaining chip (tit for tat) or a step on a path to something better, a way of making it bearable by assigning it a place and a meaning in a chain of events.
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All the crops died and me and my mama were forced into that low-down, shoddy sod house of ours. Livin’ in it during the summer had been bearable, but the winter turned out to be another beast entirely.
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This was judged to be bearable because kidneys have redundant capacity, Howard said.
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In some ways, the Dude and his disconnected dudeness has a certain appeal now, maybe because the world has grown more horrendous or reality is less bearable than when the film was made.
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This was judged to be bearable, because kidneys have redundant capacity, Howard said.
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First Known Use of bearable
circa 1557
bearable Synonyms
Synonyms
Antonyms
insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unbearable, unendurable, unsupportable;
Near Antonyms
agonizing, appalling, awful, bad, cruel, dire, dreadful, excruciating, frightful, ghastly, grisly, gruesome (also grewsome), harrowing, harsh, hideous, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, lurid, macabre, monstrous, nasty, nightmarish, painful, rotten, shocking, terrible, tormenting, torturous, unfortunate, vicious, vile, wretched;
acute, extreme, intense, piercing;
abhorrent, deplorable, disgusting, distasteful, loathsome, nauseating, obnoxious, offensive, repugnant, repulsive, revolting, sickening;
abominable, evil, foul, heinous, noxious, odious, unspeakable;
Related Words
livable (also liveable), survivable;
acceptable, adequate, admissible, allowable, permissible, reasonable, satisfactory;
BEARABLE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of bearable for English Language Learners
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: possible to bear : able to be accepted or endured
BEARABLE Defined for Kids
Definition of bearable for Students
: possible to put up with
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