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Able to suffer or endure; patient.

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  1. a. Able to suffer or endure; patient.
  2. a. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable.
  3. adj. capable of being borne though unpleasant
  4. 1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. [Obs.] "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
  5. s capable of being borne though unpleasant