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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
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unsufferable
English
Alternative forms
- insufferable
Etymology
un- +? suffer +? -able
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?s?f???b?l/
Adjective
unsufferable (comparative more unsufferable, superlative most unsufferable)
- 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?
- 6 Feb, 1645; John Evelyn; The diary of John Evelyn, Frederick Warne and Co. (1818) page 129.
Usage notes
Like insufferable, this is usually meant as a derogatory expression of frustration targeted at something.
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