bearable
Other forms: bearably
Something that you can live through, disagreeable as it may be, is bearable. The world's most boring math class, while tedious, is bearable.
If you can stand to do something, it's bearable. You might have several tricks for making a hot summer day bearable, like drinking iced tea or sitting beside a fan. A shy child might find the first day of kindergarten more bearable if his best friend is in his class. The adjective bearable comes from the sense of bear that means "endure" or "get through." The origin is the Old English beran, from a Germanic root.
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capable of being borne though unpleasantsynonyms: endurable, sufferable, supportabletolerablecapable of being borne or endured
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During a Passover Seder, 12-year-old Hannah is mysteriously transported from 1980s New York to Poland during World War II. When Hannah is forced into a concentration camp, her survival depends on understanding the depraved arithmetic the Nazis use to keep track of their prisoners.
The suffix -able means "able to be." All the words on this list are learnable — so go to it!