Supportive vs Supportable - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between supportive and supportable

is that supportive is providing support while supportable is capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.

(en adjective)

Providing support.

I had a very supportive coach who helped me.

* unsupportive

(en adjective)

Capable of being supported, upheld, maintained, or defended.

Capable of being borne, endured, or tolerated; endurable.

* 1610 , , act 5 scene 1

[...]supportable

To make the dear loss, have I means much weaker

Than you may call to comfort you, for I

Have lost my daughter.

* insupportable * intolerable * unabideable * unbearable

* supportableness * supportably

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