sufferable
pronunciation
How to pronounce sufferable in British English:
UK ['sʌfərəbəl]
How to pronounce sufferable in American English:
US ['sʌfərəbəl]
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- Adjective:
- capable of being borne though unpleasant
Word Origin
- sufferable (adj.)
- c. 1300, "patient, long-suffering;" mid-14c., "allowed, permissible;" late 14c., "able to be endured;" from Anglo-French, Old French sofrable "tolerable, acceptable; able to bear or endure," from Medieval Latin sufferabilis; see suffer + -able. Related: Sufferably.
Example
- 1. Prudence , indeed , will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly 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 .
- 2. Prudence , indeed , will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes ; and accordingly 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 .