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sufferable.

Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.

10 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

adj/ˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/General-American, Received-Pronunciation/ˈsʌfɹəb(ə)l/General-American, Received-Pronunciation
  1. Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.

    archaic · obsolete
  2. Capable of being endured, tolerated, permitted, or allowed.

    archaic · obsolete
Where this word comes from

PIE word *upó From Middle English sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”), from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)), from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’). Sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as suffer + -able.

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