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発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/, /ˈsʌfɹəb(ə)l/
• ハイフネーション: suf‧fer‧a‧ble

形容詞

sufferable (comparative more sufferable, superlative most sufferable) (archaic or obsolete)

1. Able to suffer, endure, or tolerate.

   Synonyms: tolerant, patient; see also Thesaurus:permissive, Thesaurus:tolerant.

   Antonyms: bigoted, insufferable, vulnerable

   Coordinate term: permissive (denotes negative judgment upon the toleration)

2. Capable of being endured, tolerated, permitted, or allowed.

   Synonyms: endurable, tolerable, permissible, allowable; see also Thesaurus:permissible, Thesaurus:tolerable

   Antonyms: insufferable, unendurable, intolerable, impermissible, unallowable

   • 2001, Walter Prytulak, On Pain Suffering: Reminiscences, Musings and Reflections, page 58:

     Greek philosophers put it bluntly: "The best thing in the world is not to be born; but the second best is to die." Up to the point of suicide the suffering continues to be sufferable.

関連する語

• sufferableness
• sufferably

参照

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “sufferable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “sufferable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.