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bear·a·ble

 (bâr′ə-bəl)
adj.
Capable of being endured: bearable pain; a bearable schedule.

bear′a·bil′i·ty n.
bear′a·bly adv.
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bearable

(ˈbɛərəbəl)
adj
endurable; tolerable
ˈbearably adv
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bear•a•ble

(ˈbɛər ə bəl)

adj.
capable of being endured or tolerated.
[1540–50]
bear′a•bly, adv.
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Adj.1.bearable - capable of being borne though unpleasantbearable - capable of being borne though unpleasant; "sufferable punishment"
tolerable - capable of being borne or endured; "the climate is at least tolerable"
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bearable

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

bearable

adjective
Capable of being tolerated:
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Translations
مُحتمل، مُمْكِن احْتِماله
snesitelný
tåleligudholdelig
òolanlegur
dayanılabilirtahammül edilebilir

bearable

[ˈbɛərəbl] ADJsoportable
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bearable

[ˈbɛərəbəl] adjsupportable
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bearable

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

bearable

[ˈbɛərəbl] adjsopportabile
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

bear1

(beə) past tense bore (boː) : past participle borne (boːn) verb
1. (usually with cannot, ~could not etc) to put up with or endure. I couldn't bear it if he left.
2. to be able to support. Will the table bear my weight?
3. (past participle in passive born (boːn) ) to produce (children). She has borne (him) several children; She was born on July 7.
4. to carry. He was borne shoulder-high after his victory.
5. to have. The cheque bore his signature.
6. to turn or fork. The road bears left here.
ˈbearable adjective
able to be endured.
ˈbearer noun
a person or thing that bears. the bearer of bad news.
ˈbearing noun
1. manner, way of standing etc. a military bearing.
2. (usually in plural. sometimes short for ˌball-ˈbearings) a part of a machine that has another part moving in or on it.
ˈbearings noun plural
location, place on a map etc; The island's bearings are 10 North, 24 West.
bear down on
1. to approach quickly and often threateningly. The angry teacher bore down on the child.
2. to exert pressure on. The weight is bearing down on my chest.
bear fruit
to produce fruit.
bear out
to support or confirm. This bears out what you said.
bear up
to keep up courage, strength etc (under strain). She's bearing up well after her shock.
bear with
to be patient with (someone). Bear with me for a minute, and you'll see what I mean.
find/get one's bearings
to find one's position with reference to eg a known landmark. If we can find this hill, I'll be able to get my bearings.
lose one's bearings
to become uncertain of one's position. He's confused me so much that I've lost my bearings completely.
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bearable

a. soportable, tolerable.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

bearable

adj soportable, tolerable
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References in classic literature ?
Philip acknowledged that from her point of view it would have been madness to marry him: only love could have made such poverty bearable, and she did not love him.
I saw that I was just another Robinson Crusoe cast away on an uninhabited island, with no society but some more or less tame animals, and if I wanted to make life bearable I must do as he did -- invent, contrive, create, reorganize things; set brain and hand to work, and keep them busy.
Presently she stepped into the kitchen, and Sid, happy in his immunity, reached for the sugar-bowl -- a sort of glorying over Tom which was wellnigh un- bearable. But Sid's fingers slipped and the bowl dropped and broke.
When they sat down on the grass with Captain curled at their feet, Soot solemnly listening on a tree and Nut and Shell nosing about close to them, it seemed to Mary that it would be scarcely bearable to leave such delightfulness, but when she began to tell her story somehow the look in Dickon's funny face gradually changed her mind.
Besides, it would only have been necessary to go some yards beneath the waves to find a more bearable temperature.
"There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work," he said to himself; "the natur o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change.
I can help to make your life here more bearable, but your fate is inevitable.
We can get a view from there and in our battery it is still bearable," said the adjutant.
Lying in bed all day and playing at dominoes, like poor Lord Plessy, would be more private and bearable."
"Call me Turan," replied the man, for it had come to him that if Tara of Helium recognized him as the man whose impetuous avowal of love had angered her that day in the gardens of The Warlord, her situation might be rendered infinitely less bearable than were she to believe him a total stranger.
Fortunately the caloric generated by Reiset's and Regnaut's apparatus raised the temperature of the interior of the projectile a little, and without much expenditure they were able to keep it bearable.
Anything might be bearable rather than such reproaches.