Antonyms for endurable


Grammar : Adj
Spell : en-doo r-uh-buh l, -dyoo r-
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈdʊər ə bəl, -ˈdyʊər-


Definition of endurable

Origin :
  • c.1600, "able to endure," from endure + -able. Meaning "able to be endured" is from c.1800. Related: Endurably.
  • adj tolerable
Example sentences :
  • Religion would be better than endurable in the company of such an embodiment of it!
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • Will eternity ever be bliss, ever be endurable to poor King Hamlet?
  • Extract from : « A Dish Of Orts » by George MacDonald
  • And yet, were you to live at the price at which life is offered you, would your life be endurable?
  • Extract from : « The Shame of Motley » by Raphael Sabatini
  • It is a sorry part, that of suppliant, but so long as it is for another it is endurable.
  • Extract from : « Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. » by Charles James Lever
  • If imprisonment could ever be endurable with resignation, mine ought to have been so.
  • Extract from : « Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune » by Charles James Lever
  • May I ask how he managed to make himself so endurable to you?
  • Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton
  • What he could not remedy he resolved to make as endurable as possible.
  • Extract from : « The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) » by Henry Martyn Baird
  • Norfolk is just endurable in October, when game and 'longshore herrings are in.
  • Extract from : « Dross » by Henry Seton Merriman
  • We are wont to say, Margaret, that everything is endurable but a sense of guilt.
  • Extract from : « Deerbrook » by Harriet Martineau
  • Old men can be very much in love, but they know it is no good—that makes them endurable.
  • Extract from : « Beyond » by John Galsworthy

Synonyms for endurable

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