Definitions for bearable

bearable bear·a·ble

Spelling: [bair-uh-buh l]
IPA: /ˈbɛər ə bəl/

Bearable is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 143 anagrams from letters in bearable (aabbeelr).

Definitions for bearable

adjective

  1. capable of being endured or tolerated; endurable.

Origin of bearable

First recorded in 1540-50; bear1 + -able

Examples for bearable

Just a gradual, bearable, steady impoverishment in a world where savings linked to the value of paper money languish.

In retrospect, my wife—journalist, mother, yoga phenom—clearly had a somewhat extreme interpretation of bearable.

The weather was pretty calm, and the cold without breeze was bearable.

When the stages of life are followed in order: birth, aging, illness, and death—they are bearable.

To be beaten by Kathleen, and Irene, was bearable, but—Dorothy!

If I had not a good heart, I should not be bearable any where.

And I think that all things are bearable if a man will only make up his mind to bear them.

I don't see how, to such a stormy creature as Emily, he could have been bearable.

If the country about were agreeable—nay, if it were bearable!

The temperature was just bearable, but the road was toilsome from its uneven character.

Word Value for bearable
Scrable

12

Words with friends

15

Word of the day