English Explanatory Dictionary

supportable

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
  2. Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.

Word forms

supportable more supportable most supportable

Etymology

From Middle English supportable, equivalent to support + -able, or possibly from Middle French supportable.

Synonyms

defensible excusable justifiable pardonable tenable upholdable allowable bearable sufferable abideable acceptable admissible permissible supportable tolerable endurable livable portable survivable withstandable

Antonyms

indefensible insupportable unsupportable intolerable unabideable unbearable

Derived words

supportableness supportably unsupportable
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