Endurable
[ɪn'dʒʊərəb(ə)l;en-;-'djɔː-] or [ɪn'djʊrəbl]
Definition
(a.) Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.
Edited by Lancelot
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Tolerable.
Editor: Rufus
Examples
- Mrs. Garth felt a severe twinge at this mention of her husband, the fear that Caleb might think her in the wrong not being easily endurable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It was scarcely endurable to look at the rope, and think of its giving way. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The middling sort of man, and even the poorer sort of man upon the land, were leading an endurable existence in 1700. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I will either be all or nothing to a man like Robert; no feeble shuffling or false cant is endurable. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I am afraid it is a very prosaic romance, still it may show you how a man can find life endurable even after his heart is broken. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- My suspense was also great, but more endurable, because I was where I could soon do something to relieve the situation. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
Editor: Rufus