supportable

adjective

Definition of supportablenext
1
as in justifiable
capable of being defended with good reasoning against verbal attack are there ever circumstances where laws that restrict a person's freedom of speech are supportable?

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2
as in endurable
capable of being endured her beloved cat had been rescued from the burning house, making her other losses at least supportable

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3
as in verifiable
capable of being proven as true or real the news editor simply assumed the facts of the story were supportable and did not assign it to a fact checker

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Recent Examples of supportable The output has to be supportable, reviewable and grounded in information that can actually survive scrutiny later. — Arun Ramakrishnan, Forbes.com, 1 June 2026 Claims about artificial intelligence must be technically accurate, operationally supportable, and consistent with the company’s financial results. — Perrie M. Weiner, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for supportable
  1. justifiable
  2. endurable
  3. verifiable
  4. sustainable
  5. confirmable
  6. demonstrable
  7. empirical
Adjective
  • The most justifiable criticism against the DC detective series is that its mysteries play out wordily, without letting the audience in on how its space cops come to major conclusions.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Appalled by the failure to answer many questions, Democrats responded with what was often, though not always, justifiable outrage.
    — David Wippman, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of justifiable
Adjective
  • 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
Definition of endurable
Adjective
  • For every verifiable factoid about life in Newfoundland, there’s an American or British actor doing a bizarre accent.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
  • An alignment takes place, as the legacy media consistently allows Rowling, as one of their own, to get away with removing trans women from their verifiable position as a vulnerable demographic.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Oct. 2026
Definition of verifiable
Adjective
  • There, local fishermen demonstrated their sustainable crayfish harvesting process, and as a spectacular touch, the helicopter lifted one of the crayfish tanks straight out of the ocean, giving our client a dramatic view of the abundant catch.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 8 Oct. 2026
  • This is not sustainable; when one link is weakened, the entire chain is at risk of collapse.
    — Scott Peyton, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of sustainable
Adjective
  • Binding it all together is the chain-of-custody record that includes every handoff between teams, vendors and systems, with verification signatures that make each component's provenance independently confirmable.
    — Akash Pugalia, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
  • Cekada is only the third person to be confirmed to lead the agency since the director's position was made confirmable in 2006.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 3 May 2026
Definition of confirmable
Adjective
  • Professors have encountered demonstrable issues with widespread cheating, with many forced to devise their own methods for eliminating unethical AI use.
    — Christopher Rim, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
  • America has witnessed a proliferation of voting rights groups with sound justification and demonstrable results, but there comes a point when there may be too much of a good thing.
    — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Time, 28 June 2026
Definition of demonstrable
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  • Both Fontaines were scouts well ahead of the deep empirical and objective analysis of baseball data — sabermetrics is the catchall term — that some believe has made scouts obsolete.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Others, like Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, think the empirical methods this would require are extremely unlikely to work, and place the chance that superintelligence kills us all very high.
    — Geoffrey Irving, Time, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of empirical

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“Supportable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/supportable. Accessed 11 Oct. 2026.

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