Synonyms for supportable

Grammar : Adj

Spell : suh-pawr-tuh-buh l, -pohr-

Phonetic Transcription : səˈpɔr tə bəl, -ˈpoʊr-

Définition of supportable

adj sustainable

Example sentences :

If it be for what I apprehend it to be, life will not be supportable upon the terms.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

The only thing which makes it supportable for a while is curiosity.
Extract from : « Chance » by Joseph Conrad

The historical form has at last found a poet to render it supportable.
Extract from : « The Merry-Go-Round » by Carl Van Vechten

How then could seven or eight hundred years of life be supportable?
Extract from : « The Works of William Cowper » by William Cowper

To her it is only the thought that her state of dependence is temporary that makes it supportable.
Extract from : « Red as a Rose is She » by Rhoda Broughton

Life was so terrible it would not be supportable without love.
Extract from : « The Judge » by Rebecca West

If a horse should be elated and say, "I am handsome," it would be supportable.
Extract from : « The Worlds Greatest Books, Volume XIII. » by Various

The descent only occupied two or three minutes, and yet the shock was supportable.
Extract from : « Wonderful Balloon Ascents » by Fulgence Marion

I think it a supportable thesis that every age, every wide and popular movement, finds its supreme expression in a Poet.
Extract from : « Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 7 » by Various

But I left myself in a solitary situation, which even the return of my good fortune cannot render easy and supportable.
Extract from : « The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom, Complete » by Tobias Smollett

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