英语词汇“endurable”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

adj

If you can tolerate something, it's endurable. Getting a cavity filled at the dentist, while not very fun, is still endurable.

Use the adjective endurable to describe something that's no fun, but that a person can generally deal with. Standardized tests are endurable, and eating soggy, overcooked broccoli is endurable. A long ride on a stormy sea — as long as the ship doesn't capsize — is also endurable. To endure something is to withstand it — if it's endurable, it can be endured. The word is rooted in the Latin indurare, "to make hard or firm."

WORD FAMILY

endurable: endurably, unendurable+/endurance: endurances/endure: endurable, endurance, endured, endures, enduring/enduring: enduringly, enduringness/unendurable: unendurably

USAGE EXAMPLES

In the crucible of cancer treatment, the bonding of patients with physicians often makes the unendurable endurable.

New York Times(Nov 03, 2016)

The final result may well be a slap on the wrist and a noisy news cycle for Clinton, but that’s easily endurable.

Salon(Mar 28, 2016)

Words are so powerful to me, and now they’re so endurable and transferable, and they show up somewhere else 20 years later.

Salon(Dec 19, 2015)

adj capable of being borne though unpleasant

Syn

bearable, sufferable, supportable
tolerable

capable of being borne or endured

单词	endurable
释义	endurable (once / 1993 pages) adj If you can tolerate something, it's endurable. Getting a cavity filled at the dentist, while not very fun, is still endurable. Use the adjective endurable to describe something that's no fun, but that a person can generally deal with. Standardized tests are endurable, and eating soggy, overcooked broccoli is endurable. A long ride on a stormy sea — as long as the ship doesn't capsize — is also endurable. To endure something is to withstand it — if it's endurable, it can be endured. The word is rooted in the Latin indurare, "to make hard or firm." WORD FAMILY endurable: endurably, unendurable+/endurance: endurances/endure: endurable, endurance, endured, endures, enduring/enduring: enduringly, enduringness/unendurable: unendurably USAGE EXAMPLES In the crucible of cancer treatment, the bonding of patients with physicians often makes the unendurable endurable. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) The final result may well be a slap on the wrist and a noisy news cycle for Clinton, but that’s easily endurable. Salon(Mar 28, 2016) Words are so powerful to me, and now they’re so endurable and transferable, and they show up somewhere else 20 years later. Salon(Dec 19, 2015) adj capable of being borne though unpleasant Syn bearable, sufferable, supportable tolerable capable of being borne or endured
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