Endurable

/ɪnˈd(j)ʊɹ.ɪ.bəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Able to be endured; tolerable; bearable..

Definitions by Sense

1. Able to be endured; tolerable; bearable.
2. Capable of enduring; likely to endure; durable.

Example Sentences

A sharp keen wind blew dead against us; a hard frost prevailed on shore; and the cold was most severe. Yet the air was so intensely clear, and dry, and bright, that the temperature was not only endurable, but delicious.

As his bodily strength increased, and his health, considerably impaired by inward suffering, improved, the trouble of his soul became more endurable—and in some measure to endure is to conquer and destroy.

And when belief was dead and God a myth, / And the world seemed a wandering mote of evil, / Endurable only by its impermanence, / And all the planets perishable urns / Of perishable ashes, to you alone I clung / Amid the unspeakable loneliness of the universe.

A novelist can run on and on (and, alas, does!). He can perversely take twenty words to describe the Apocalypse and fifty pages to chronicle the hero's shaving, and still be endurable, because the reader can always slap the book shut and continue it only when he is in the mood.

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother's voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet.

[…] the agriculturist would outlive the struggle, and his property be as fixed and endurable as the oaks which were planted by his ancestors.

Albert E. Brum was born into one of Petawawa’s founding families who eventually established one of the area’s most endurable businesses.

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• more endurable
• most endurable
• indurable

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