supportable
Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
Adjective
- Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
- A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable. - 1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Wedding”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.;...
Synonyms: defensible excusable justifiable pardonable tenable upholdable
Antonyms: indefensible insupportable unsupportable
- Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.
- [...]supportable To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker Than you may call to comfort you, for I Have lost my daughter. - 1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares...
Synonyms: allowable bearable sufferable abideable acceptable admissible permissible supportable tolerable endurable livable portable survivable withstandable
Antonyms: insupportable intolerable unabideable unbearable unsupportable
Origin
From Middle English supportable, equivalent to support + -able, or possibly from Middle French supportable.