as in endurable
capable of being endured
the pain from a sprained ankle is annoying but bearable
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Recent Examples of bearable
From space-saving gadgets to cozy layers that make long flights a little more bearable, these deals are too good to pass up.
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Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025
The doctors, nurses, administrators and soldiers found a way to invoke humor through practical jokes to make their mission abroad bearable.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 10 May 2025
Even the final episode, where Molly enters the final stretch of her illness, is made bearable by a funny and warm performance by Paula Pell as a hospice nurse who pulls no verbal punches.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2025
This is a narrow margin but bearable for firms that are not overleveraged.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Carin Ryan, Travel + Leisure, 21 May 2025
The doctors, nurses, administrators and soldiers found a way to invoke humor through practical jokes to make their mission abroad bearable.
—Rachel Flynn, People.com, 10 May 2025
Even the final episode, where Molly enters the final stretch of her illness, is made bearable by a funny and warm performance by Paula Pell as a hospice nurse who pulls no verbal punches.
—Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 3 Apr. 2025
This is a narrow margin but bearable for firms that are not overleveraged.
—Dave Birnbaum, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for bearable
Adjective
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Waiting for the movie to come to Racine, Wisconsin, didn’t seem endurable.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Apr. 2025
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Those intimate pauses are more endurable than the film’s particularly unfunny comic centerpiece, in which the men venture into a nightclub to meet with a generic, coke-addled magnate.—
J. Kim Murphy,
Variety,
14 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The distorted memories actually helped some wives feel more satisfied with their current relationship, suggesting that our brains sometimes rewrite the past to make the present more tolerable, or more meaningful.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 Apr. 2025
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The tolerable upper intake of vitamin D for adults is 4,000 IU per day, according to the National Institutes for Health.—
Caroline C. Boyle,
USA Today,
28 May 2025
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“Bearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bearable. Accessed 2 Jul. 2025.
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