Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Possible to suffer, endure, or permit; tolerable: sufferable punishment; sufferable difficulties.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being suffered, endured, tolerated, or permitted; allowable.
- Capable of suffering or enduring with patience; tolerant; patient.
Wiktionary
- adj. obsolete Able to suffer or endure; patient.
- adj. That may be suffered; capable of being tolerated, endured or permitted; allowable; tolerable.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. obsolete Able to suffer or endure; patient.
- adj. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. capable of being borne though unpleasant
Etymologies
- suffer + -able (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But if the machines are sufferable, that is, if they have so much as divine probability, then it follows of necessity, that the doctrine of the church is false; so that I leave it to every impartial clergyman to consider. ”
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
“Was technology available to maintain a sufferable climate?”
“But, “Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.””
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
“It won a Stoker Award, so it's gotta be at least sufferable, right?”
“All experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
The Huffington Post: Douglas Forbes: The End: Hollywood's Campaign to End Poverty in America
““Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.””
“Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient Causes; and that accordingly all Experience hath shewn, that Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while Evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the Forms to which they are accustomed.”
“From Declaration of Independence : …Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.”
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