different between dire vs insufferable
dire
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin d?rus (“fearful, ominous”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?da???(?)/
- Rhymes: -a??(?)
Adjective
dire (comparative direr or more dire, superlative direst or most dire)
- Warning of bad consequences: ill-boding; portentous.
- Requiring action to prevent bad consequences: urgent, pressing.
- Expressing bad consequences: dreadful; dismal
- Synonyms: horrible, terrible, lamentable
- (informal) Bad in quality, awful, terrible.
- His dire mistake allowed her to checkmate him with her next move.
Quotations
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:dire.
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- voir dire
Anagrams
- Dier, IDer, Reid, dier, drie, ired, ride
French
Etymology
From Middle French dire, from Old French dire, from Latin d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (“to show, point out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di?/
- (Quebec) IPA(key): /d?zi?/
- Rhymes: -i?
Verb
dire
- to say, to tell
- (informal) (transitive with à) to be of interest to someone, to interest someone
- (informal) (transitive with à) to sound familiar
Conjugation
Derived terms
Related terms
- diction
- indicible
Noun
dire m (plural dires)
- saying (that which is said)
- belief, opinion
Derived terms
- aux dires de
Further reading
- “dire” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- ride, ridé
Italian
Alternative forms
- dicere (archaic)
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?, from Proto-Italic *deik?, from Proto-Indo-European *déy?ti (“to show, point out”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?di.re/
- Hyphenation: dì?re
Verb
dìre (first-person singular present dìco, first-person singular past historic dìssi, past participle détto, first-person singular imperfect dicévo, second-person singular imperative di' or (with written accent) dì, auxiliary avere) (transitive)
- to say, tell
- to recite
- to mean
- to think
- to admit
Conjugation
Related terms
Anagrams
- ride
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /?di?.re/, [?d?i???]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /?di.re/, [?d?i???]
Adjective
d?re
- vocative masculine singular of d?rus
References
- dire in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say (express using language)
Descendants
- French: dire
Occitan
Alternative forms
- díder, díser
Etymology
From Old Occitan dir, dire, from a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say (express using language)
- to mean; to signify
Conjugation
Old French
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- (chiefly intransitive) to say
- (transitive) to recount (a story)
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a third-group verb. This verb has irregularities in its conjugation. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Descendants
- Middle French: dire
- French: dire
- Norman: dithe
- Walloon: dire
References
- “Appendix E: Irregular Verbs” in E. Einhorn (1974), Old French: A Concise Handbook, Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 153
Old Occitan
Alternative forms
- dir
Etymology
From a contraction of Latin d?cere, present active infinitive of d?c?.
Verb
dire
- to say
Descendants
- Occitan: dire
Walloon
Etymology
From Old French dire, from a contraction of Latin d?c?, d?cere.
Verb
dire
- to say
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insufferable
English
Etymology
in- +? sufferable
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): [?n?s?f??bl?]
- (US) enPR: ?n-s?f'?r-?-b?l, IPA(key): /?n?s?f??b?l/, [?n?s?f??bl?]
Adjective
insufferable (comparative more insufferable, superlative most insufferable)
- Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.
- 1894, Henry James, The Coxon Fund, ch. 4:
- Saltram was incapable of keeping the engagements which, after their separation, he had entered into with regard to his wife, a deeply wronged, justly resentful, quite irreproachable and insufferable person.
- 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, ch. 13:
- Marvell . . . thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms.
- 2011 June 7, "Chaos in Syria," Time:
- The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria — and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.
- 1894, Henry James, The Coxon Fund, ch. 4:
Synonyms
- intolerable, unbearable
Related terms
- insufferableness
- insufferably
Translations
References
- insufferable at OneLook Dictionary Search
insufferable From the web:
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