supportable

Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.

Adjective

  1. 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

  2. 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.

Forms

more supportable most supportable

Derived

supportableness supportably unsupportable