bearable

[ bair-uh-buh l ]

/ ˈbɛər ə bəl /

capable of being endured or tolerated; endurable.

Origin of bearable

First recorded in 1540–50; bear¹ + -able

bear·a·ble·ness, noun bear·a·bly, adverb

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

Keeping Your Faith (In Gold) |David Frum |April 25, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
When the stages of life are followed in order: birth, aging, illness, and death—they are bearable.

Japanese Horror Director Tackles the 3/11 Tsunami |Jake Adelstein, Nathalie-Kyoko Stucky |February 23, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
In retrospect, my wife—journalist, mother, yoga phenom—clearly had a somewhat extreme interpretation of bearable.

My Accidental Home Birth |Jim Sciutto |November 30, 2010 |DAILY BEAST
What is it, then, that makes this conflict not only possible and bearable but even pleasant?

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler |Samuel Butler

It seemed as if, had he come with us, everything would have been right, or at least bearable.

The Chauffeur and the Chaperon |C. N. Williamson
The want of sleep conduces to an unnatural condition of the mind, under which these awful facts are bearable to the bereaved.

The Johnstown Horror |James Herbert Walker
His mother's anger was bearable, but the Colonel's very weakness was a deadly weapon.

The Hero |William Somerset Maugham
The certainty would have been bearable; I had courage to face ruin.

Helmet of Navarre |Bertha Runkle

bearable

/ (ˈbɛərəbəl) /

endurable; tolerable

bearably, adverb