Synonyms of endurable

endurable

adjective

in-ˈdu̇r-ə-bəl 

as in sustainable

capable of being endured

a flu shot is never pleasant, but I find the momentary pain entirely endurable

Synonyms & Similar Words

• sustainable
• sufferable
• tolerable
• bearable
• acceptable
• survivable
• supportable
• satisfactory
• adequate
• allowable
• reasonable
• livable
• permissible
• admissible

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• intolerable
• unbearable
• painful
• terrible
• awful
• bad
• unfortunate
• cruel
• horrible
• dreadful
• harsh
• appalling
• unendurable
• hideous
• wretched
• frightful
• dire
• vicious
• unacceptable
• horrid
• monstrous
• agonizing
• shocking
• ghastly
• excruciating
• gruesome
• vile
• horrifying
• rotten
• horrendous
• acute
• nightmarish
• insufferable
• extreme
• intense
• harrowing
• lurid
• nasty
• grisly
• insupportable
• macabre
• unsupportable
• torturous
• deplorable
• repulsive
• offensive
• distasteful
• obnoxious
• repugnant
• loathsome
• disgusting
• revolting
• evil
• tormenting
• abhorrent
• sickening
• odious
• unspeakable
• noxious
• abominable
• heinous
• foul
• piercing
• nauseating

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of endurable

Two people with divergent intuitions about what’s normal, or endurable, can end up tussling over the same territory. — Ian Crouch, New Yorker, 15 July 2026

Recognizing this makes the feeling more endurable. — Daniel Smith, The Atlantic, 27 Feb. 2026

That's not a just, endurable peace. — NBC news, 17 Aug. 2025

Waiting for the movie to come to Racine, Wisconsin, didn’t seem endurable. — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 30 Apr. 2025

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

His comments come as Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman brokered a meeting between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov this week in Riyadh to devise an endurable end to the war in Ukraine. — David Catanese, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025

But Russo understands the appeal, even the necessity, of those absurd affections that exceed all reason and make the travails of human life endurable. — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 18 July 2023