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Definition: Sufferable |
SufferableAdjective1. Capable of being borne though unpleasant; "sufferable punishment". 2. Capable of being tolerated; "sufferable difficulties". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sufferable" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1692. (references) |
Etymology: Sufferable \Suf"fer*a*ble\, adjective. [Compare to the French expression souffrable.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: SufferableSynonyms: bearable (adj), endurable (adj), supportable (adj), tolerable (adj). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Sufferable |
| English words defined with "sufferable": Patible. (references) |
| Author | Quotation |
Thomas Jefferson | Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | 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. (reference) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Translations for "sufferable"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | محتمل (bearable, endurable, likely, perchance, perhaps, possible, potential, presumably, probable, prospective, supportable, sustainable, tolerable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | сносен (fair, livable, liveable, passable, reasonable, respectable, satisfactory, tolerable), търпим (bearable, endurable, tolerable), поносим (bearable, endurable, livable, liveable, possible, tolerable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | erträglich (bearable, endurable, livable, liveable, supportable, tolerable, tolerably). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποφερτόσ (bearable, livable, liveable, passable, tolerable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | surransagh (forbearing, in-patient, passive, patient, sufferer, supportable, tolerable, tolerant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ufferablesay выносимый (endurable, sustainable). (various references) sufrible (endurable). (various references) ซึ่งอ"ทนไ"้. (various references) katlanılır (bearable, endurable, tolerable), dayanılabilir (supportable), çekilir (bearable, declinable, endurable, livable, supportable, tolerable). (various references) стерпний (bearable, endurable, liveable, so so). (various references) có thể chịu đựng được (endurable, possible, supportable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | patibilis. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sufferable": sufferableness, sufferablenesses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sufferable": insufferable. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sufferable": insufferableness, insufferablenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Sufferable" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Safarali. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "sufferable" (pronounced 'Suf"fer*a*ble'): Abatable, Abdicable, Abhominable, Abhorrible, Abolishable, Abominable, Abrogable, Absolvable, Absorbable, Abusable, Accendible, Accentuable, Acceptable, Accessible, Acclimatable, Acclimatizable, Accommodable, Accompanable, Accomplishable, Accomptable, Accordable, Accostable, Accountable, Accusable, Accustomable, Acetable, Achievable, Acidifiable, Acquaintable, Acquirable, Acreable, Actable, Actionable, Adaptable, Addable, Addible, Adducible, Adjustable, Administrable, Admirable, Admissible, Admittable, Adoptable, Adorable, Adustible, Advantageable, Advisable, Affable, Affectible, Affiliable. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-e-e-f-f-l-r-s-u" | |
-2 letters: bafflers, bluffers, reusable, surfable. | |
-3 letters: baffler, baffles, befleas, bluffer, buffers, earfuls, easeful, effable, fablers, farfels, fearful, ferulae, ferulas, ferules, fuelers, raffles, rebuffs, refuels, refusal, ruffles, useable. | |
-4 letters: abeles, abuser, baffle, balers, beflea, blares, blears, bluffs, buffer, bursae, bursal, earful, effuse, fabler, fables, falser, farfel, farles, ferula, ferule, feuars, flares, fleers, fueler, larees, leaser. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-e-e-f-f-l-r-s-u" | |
+2 letters: insufferable. | |
+4 letters: buffaloberries, sufferableness. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Quotations: Familiar | 5. Quotations: Historic 6. Translations: Modern 7. Translations: Ancient 8. Derivations | 9. Rhymes 10. Anagrams 11. Bibliography |
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