different between endure vs unsufferable

English

Alternative forms

• enduer (obsolete)
• indure (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English enduren, from Old French endurer, from Latin ind?r? (“to make hard”). Displaced Old English dr?ogan, which survives dialectally as dree.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?n?dj???(?)/, /?n?dj??(?)/, /?n?d?????(?)/, /?n?d????(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?n?d(j)??/
• Rhymes: -??(r)

Verb

endure (third-person singular simple present endures, present participle enduring, simple past and past participle endured)

1. (intransitive) To continue or carry on, despite obstacles or hardships; to persist.

   The singer's popularity endured for decades.

2. (transitive) To tolerate or put up with something unpleasant.
3. (intransitive) To last.

   Our love will endure forever.
4. To remain firm, as under trial or suffering; to suffer patiently or without yielding; to bear up under adversity; to hold out.
5. (transitive) To suffer patiently.

   He endured years of pain.
6. (obsolete) To indurate.

Synonyms

• (to continue despite obstacles): carry on, plug away; See also Thesaurus:persevere
• (to tolerate something): bear, thole, take; See also Thesaurus:tolerate
• (to last): go on, hold on, persist; See also Thesaurus:persist
• (to remain firm): resist, survive, withstand
• (to suffer patiently): accept, thole, withstand
• (to indurate):

Related terms

• endurance
• enduring
• enduro
• duress

Translations

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “endure”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN

Anagrams

• durene, enduer, enured, reuned

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.dy?/

Verb

endure

1. first-person singular present indicative of endurer
2. third-person singular present indicative of endurer
3. first-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
4. third-person singular present subjunctive of endurer
5. second-person singular imperative of endurer

Anagrams

• rendue

English

Alternative forms

• insufferable

Etymology

un- +? suffer +? -able

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?s?f???b?l/

Adjective

unsufferable (comparative more unsufferable, superlative most unsufferable)

1. Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.
   • 6 Feb, 1645; John Evelyn; The diary of John Evelyn, Frederick Warne and Co. (1818) page 129.

     The heate of this place is wonderfull; the earth itselfe being almost unsufferable, and which the subterranean fires have made so hollow, by having wasted the matter for so many years, that it sounds like a drum to those who walke upon it...

   • 1734; Isaac Barrow; The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated, Tr. John Kirkby page 48. A translation of Barrow's Lectiones habitæ in scholis publicis Academiæ Cantabrigiensis An. dom. MDCLXV. London: Playford pro Georgio Wells, 1665.

     [T]his Comparison of a Point in Geometry with Unity in Arithmetic is of all the most unsufferable, and derives the worst Consequences upon Mathematical Learning.

   • 1813; Isaac Watts; The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes, Volume 6, Edward Baines, page 504

     It is possible that these expressions of God's covering Moses with his hand while the glory of God past by, and Moses seeing the back parts of God, may signify no more than this, that in this particular appearance of God he arrayed himself in beams of light of such unsufferable splendor, that it would have destroyed the body of Moses had not God sheltered and protected him...

   • 1839; Edward Wells, William Dowsing; The rich man's duty to contribute liberally to the building, rebuilding, repairing, beautifying, and adorning of churches, Oxford: T. Combe, page 139

     ...would it not be an unsufferable crime in a steward, on the strength of the forementioned false imagination, for to lay out great sums of his lord's money on building himself a noble house, and the mean while to let his lord's house lie in a mean, or even ruinous condition?

Usage notes

Like insufferable, this is usually meant as a derogatory expression of frustration targeted at something.

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