From Middle English berable, equivalent to bear + -able.
bearable (not comparable)
- Able to be borne; tolerable; endurable.
- Able to be borne or carried; portable.
2015, Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, Matthew C. Halteman, Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating:A joint cause is neither necessary nor sufficient for an effect—for example, any one of six pallbearers is a joint cause of carrying a coffin bearable by four.
able to be borne
- Bulgarian: търпи́м (bg) (tǎrpím), сно́сен (bg) (snósen), поноси́м (bg) (ponosím)
- Catalan: suportable
- Czech: snesitelný (cs) m
- Dutch: draaglijk (nl)
- Finnish: siedettävä (fi)
- French: vivable (fr), supportable (fr)
- German: erträglich (de)
- Greek: ανεκτός (el) (anektós)
- Ancient: ἀνεκτός (anektós), φορητός (phorētós)
- Hungarian: kibírható (hu), elviselhető (hu)
- Irish: sofhulaingthe
- Italian: sopportabile (it)
- Latin: tolerabilis
- Old English: āberendlīċ
- Polish: znośny (pl), do wytrzymania
- Portuguese: suportável (pt)
- Russian: терпи́мый (ru) (terpímyj), сно́сный (ru) (snósnyj), выноси́мый (ru) (vynosímyj)
- Spanish: soportable, tolerable (es), llevadero (es)
- Walloon: eduråve (wa) m or f, sopoirtåve (wa) m or f
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