Crossword clues for endurable
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Endurable \En*dur"a*ble\, a. [Cf. OF. endurable. See Endure.]
Capable of being endured or borne; sufferable.
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En*dur"a*ble*ness, n.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "able to endure," from endure + -able, or from French endurable. Meaning "able to be endured" is from 1744. Related: Endurably.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Able to be endured; tolerable; bearable. 2 Capable of endure; likely to endure; durable.
WordNet
adj. capable of being borne though unpleasant; "sufferable punishment" [syn: bearable, sufferable, supportable]
Usage examples of "endurable".
All were fully decked, which meant the oarsmen sat within the hull, an ordeal more endurable because they were housed in an outrigger that projected them well over the water, made it easier and airier to row.
She thought it a very hard thing to have spent so much of her life at Fellside, a trial that would have hardly been endurable if it were not for grandmother.
A fellow-man suddenly put down in our midst from civilized surroundings would possibly shake his head at so many degrees of frost, but it must be remembered that we have long ago abandoned the ordinary ideas of civilized people as to what is endurable in the way of temperature.
And when I come to reflect on the many circumstances which go to the making of matrimonial happiness, I cannot help thinking that a personage of her present able exterior, thoroughly experienced in all the domestic arts which render life comfortable, might make the later years of some hitherto companionless bachelor very endurable, not to say pleasant.
With the pain at an endurable level, she could now take pleasure from her deflowering and so thrust herself again and again to drive the man's shaft to that magical spot.
The intent of the place and its regime was punitive, but not destructive, and I think it might have been endurable, without the druggings and the examinations.
We stretched out under high hot sun, with just enough sea breeze to make it endurable, a breeze that clattered palm fronds and rustled the wide leaves of the dwarf banana trees, and brought little creakings and groanings from a tall stand of bamboo on the slope leading down to the boat basin.
And the pain of speaking from the heart was always, in the end, more endurable than the suffering that was the price of silence.
He spent the equivalent of a high-level salary just to fill the closed system humidifiers to make these office quarters endurable.
He spent the equivalent of a high-level salary just to fill the closed-system humidifiers to make these office quarters endurable.