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unendurable

English

Alternative forms

  • unindurable (obsolete)

Etymology

un- +? endurable.

Adjective

unendurable (comparative more unendurable, superlative most unendurable)

  1. Not to be endured; intolerable.

Related terms

  • unendurability
  • unendurableness

References

  • unendurable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

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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)

  1. 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.

Synonyms

  • intolerable, unbearable

Related terms

  • insufferableness
  • insufferably

Translations

References

  • insufferable at OneLook Dictionary Search

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