different between supportable vs tolerable

English

Etymology

support +? -able

Adjective

supportable (comparative more supportable, superlative most supportable)

1. Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
2. Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.
   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 5 scene 1

     [...]supportable

     To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker

     Than you may call to comfort you, for I

     Have lost my daughter.

Antonyms

• insupportable
• intolerable
• unabideable
• unbearable

Derived terms

• supportableness
• supportably

Translations

References

• supportable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• supportable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• postpuberal

French

Etymology

From supporter +? -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sy.p??.tabl/

Adjective

supportable (plural supportables)

1. bearable, supportable, tolerable

Further reading

• “supportable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French tolerable, from Latin toler?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?l???bl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?l???bl?/
• Hyphenation: tol?er?able

Adjective

tolerable (comparative more tolerable, superlative most tolerable)

1. Capable of being borne, tolerated or endured; bearable or endurable.
2. Moderate in degree; mediocre; passable, acceptable or so-so.
3. Such as to be tolerated or countenanced; permissible; allowable.
4. In fair health; passably well.

Antonyms

• intolerable

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Adverb

tolerable (comparative more tolerable, superlative most tolerable)

1. (dialect) tolerably; passably; moderately.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin toler?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /to.l???a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /tu.l???a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /to.le??a.ble/

Adjective

tolerable (masculine and feminine plural tolerables)

1. tolerable

   Antonym: intolerable

Derived terms

• tolerabilitat

Related terms

• tolerar

Further reading

• “tolerable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “tolerable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “tolerable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tolerable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Galician

Alternative forms

• tolerábel

Etymology

From Latin toler?bilis.

Adjective

tolerable m or f (plural tolerables)

1. tolerable

   Antonym: intolerable

Related terms

• tolerar

Further reading

• “tolerable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin toler?bilis.

Adjective

tolerable (plural tolerables)

1. tolerable

   Antonym: intolerable

Derived terms

• tolerabilidad

Related terms

• tolerar

Further reading

• “tolerable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.