brookable

1. (rare, Scotland) That may be brooked; bearable, endurable, tolerable.Examples: "He saw every feature, and every line of the face, distinctly, as it gazed on him with an intensity that was hardly brookable."; "I am maimed. I am dumfoundered ever sin I engaged mysel to Keatie M,Cheyne. Had I been married—downrightly married it had been brookable; but here I am like a dog tied to a kirn that maunna taste the cream for days an’ months an’ years."; "Burns was naturally flattered by this attention, as appears both from his very clever dedication and letters; for though he was jealous of the great to an extent that was scarcely brookable, and shunned pecuniary obligations to any of them as much as he would have shunned adders in his path, yet, from the whole of his correspondence, it appears that the countenance of the great was highly agreeable to him."Scotlandrare