brookable

That may be brooked; bearable, endurable, tolerable.

Adjective

  1. That may be brooked; bearable, endurable, tolerable.
    • He saw every feature, and every line of the face, distinctly, as it gazed on him with an intensity that was hardly brookable. - 1824, [James Hogg], “The Editor’s Narrative”, in The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a...
    • I am maimed. I am dumfoundered ever sin I engaged mysel to Keatie M,Cheyne. Had I been married—downrightly married it had been brookable; but here I am like a dog tied to a kirn that maunna taste the cream for days an’...
    • Burns was naturally flattered by this attention, as appears both from his very clever dedication and letters; for though he was jealous of the great to an extent that was scarcely brookable, and shunned pecuniary...

Origin

From brook + -able.

Forms

more brookable most brookable

Related

unbrookable