Thesaurus / supportable
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The heat was very great, and was only supportable when one kept a drenched handkerchief under one's hat.
THE RELIEF OF MAFEKINGFILSON YOUNGBut a few days and it will be supportable; a few months and it will have become no more than a tender melancholy.
THE COLLECTED WORKS OF AMBROSE BIERCEAMBROSE BIERCECommand my influence to render your exile and that of this interesting young person more supportable.
QUENTIN DURWARDSIR WALTER SCOTT"In her case the end would make any sort of means supportable," Honoria answered.
THE HISTORY OF SIR RICHARD CALMADYLUCAS MALETJames's presence is of the greatest comfort to me, and alone enables me to make my cabin supportable.
MEMOIRS AND CORRESPONDENCE OF ADMIRAL LORD DE SAUMAREZ. VOL IISIR JOHN ROSSThis is the supportable approximation they would rest patient with, That by their work they might be kept alive to work more!
PAST AND PRESENTTHOMAS CARLYLEI had lost of humanity but its illusions, and they alone are what render it supportable.
THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION, VOL. 20, NO. 580, SUPPLEMENTAL NUMBERVARIOUSIn America the being placed upon the jury is looked upon as a burden, but it is a burden which is very supportable.
AMERICAN INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR INFLUENCEALEXIS DE TOCQUEVILLE ET AL.They were my friends, my companions; they alone could yet alleviate my melancholy, and render my loneliness supportable.
PERILS AND CAPTIVITYCHARLOTTE-ADLADE [NE PICARD] DARDThe pain is supportable, and consists in the sensation of a prick produced in the passage of the needle through the skin.
SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SUPPLEMENT, NO. 787, JANUARY 31, 1891VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SUPPORTABLE
- adequate
- all right
- allowable
- average
- bearable
- better than nothing
- common
- decent
- endurable
- fair
- fair to middling
- fairly good
- goodish
- indifferent
- livable
- mediocre
- middling
- not bad
- okay
- ordinary
- passable
- presentable
- respectable
- run-of-the-mill
- satisfactory
- so-so
- sufferable
- sufficient
- supportable
- sustainable
- tidy
- unexceptionable
- unexceptional
- unimpeachable
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