different between supportable vs undocumentable

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

un- +? documentable

Adjective

undocumentable (not comparable)

1. Not supportable with documentary evidence.

   These hearsay claims are intrinsically undocumentable.

   • 1953, W. Cochran, F. Mosteller, and J. Tukey, "Statistical Problems of the Kinsey Report," Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol 48 no 264 (Dec), p. 674.

     KPM should have indicated which of their statements where undocumented or undocumentable and should have been more cautious.

   • 1972, W. E. Fredeman, "Impediments and Motives: Biography as an Unfair Sport," Modern Philology, vol 70 no 2 (Nov), p. 151.

     . . . that undocumentable life of which, Sonstroem repeatedly acknowledges, he may not himself even have been aware.

   • 1997, Stephen Jay Gould, "Editorial: Bright Star Among Billions," Science, vol 275 no 5300 (31 Jan), p. 599.

     Real science is so damned exciting, transforming, and provable, why would anyone prefer the undocumentable nonsense of astrology, alien abductions, and so forth?

   • 2002, Scott Moss, "Policy analysis from first principles." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol 99, no 10, sup 3 (May), p. 7265.

     Apart from one undocumentable claim, the strongest responses were that, when applied to past data, some new modeling techniques look better than most previous modeling techniques.

Antonyms

• documentable

Translations