supportable

Adjective

supportable (comparative more supportable, superlative most supportable)

1. Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.
   • A ceremony at which two persons undertake to become one, one undertakes to become nothing, and nothing undertakes to become supportable.1911, Ambrose Bierce, “Wedding”, in The Devil’s Dictionary, New York, N.Y.; Washington, D.C.: The Neale Publishing Company, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   defensible, excusable, justifiable, pardonable, tenable, upholdable

   Antonyms:

   indefensible, insupportable, unsupportable

2. Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.
   • [...]supportable
     To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker
     Than you may call to comfort you, for I
     Have lost my daughter.1610–1611 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tempest”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published...

   Synonyms:

   allowable, bearable, sufferable, abideable, acceptable, admissible, permissible, tolerable, endurable, livable

   Antonyms:

   insupportable, intolerable, unabideable, unbearable, unsupportable