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sufferable

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Pronunciation
/ˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/
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/ˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/ · /ˈsʌfɹəb(ə)l/

Definition of sufferable

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. (archaic, obsolete)Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.
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adj

  1. (archaic, obsolete)Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.
    “.”
  2. (archaic, obsolete)Capable of being endured, tolerated, permitted, or allowed.
    “Greek philosophers put it bluntly: "The best thing in the world is not to be born; but the second best is to die." Up to the point of suicide the suffering continues to be sufferable.”

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Etymology

PIE word *upó From Middle English sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”),…

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PIE word *upó From Middle English sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”), from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)), from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’). Sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as suffer + -able.

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