bearable

English

From Middle English berable, equivalent to bear +‎ -able.

bearable (not comparable)

Able to be borne; tolerable; endurable.
Able to be borne or carried; portable.
- 2015, Andrew Chignell, Terence Cuneo, Matthew C. Halteman, Philosophy Comes to Dinner: Arguments About the Ethics of Eating:
  A joint cause is neither necessary nor sufficient for an effect—for example, any one of six pallbearers is a joint cause of carrying a coffin bearable by four.

able to be borne

Bulgarian: търпи́м (bg) (tǎrpím), сно́сен (bg) (snósen), поноси́м (bg) (ponosím)
Catalan: suportable
Czech: snesitelný (cs) m
Dutch: draaglijk (nl)
Finnish: siedettävä (fi)
French: vivable (fr), supportable (fr)
German: erträglich (de)
Greek: ανεκτός (el) (anektós)
Ancient: ἀνεκτός (anektós), φορητός (phorētós)
Hungarian: kibírható (hu), elviselhető (hu)
Irish: sofhulaingthe
Italian: sopportabile (it)
Latin: tolerabilis
Old English: āberendlīċ
Polish: znośny (pl), do wytrzymania
Portuguese: suportável (pt)
Russian: терпи́мый (ru) (terpímyj), сно́сный (ru) (snósnyj), выноси́мый (ru) (vynosímyj)
Spanish: soportable, tolerable (es), llevadero (es)
Walloon: eduråve (wa) m or f, sopoirtåve (wa) m or f

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