semibearable

English

Etymology

From semi- +‎ bearable.

Adjective

semibearable (not comparable)

1. Somewhat but not entirely bearable
   • 1988 February 12, Jonathan Rosenbaum, “Unwarranted Heaviness”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     The semibearable heaviness of Philip Kaufman, at least in his last three features--Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Wanderers, and The Right Stuff--is largely a matter of an only half-disguised didactic impulse, a notion that he's got something to teach us.