insufferable

insufferable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

Examples of insufferable in a sentence

• Assistance is impossible; condolence, insufferable.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter V, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume III, London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […]...
• He heard and saw, and sought to free / His strain'd eye from the sight: / But Heaven's high magic bound it there, / Still gazing, though untaught to bear / Th' insufferable light.1827, [John Keble], “The Conversion of St. Paul”, in The Christian Year: Thoughts in Verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the...
• That the illumination should have been kindled by his cousin's husband was not precisely agreeable to Marvell, who thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms.1913 October, Edith Wharton, chapter XIII, in The Custom of the Country, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 173:
• The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria – and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.2011 June 7, “Chaos in Syria: Are Army Deserters Helping to Arm the Opposition?”, in TIME, New York, N.Y.: Time Warner Publishing, →ISSN...

All 11 example sentences with insufferable

Synonyms of insufferable

• insupportable
• unabideable
• unendurable
• unsupportable
• unsufferable

Antonyms

• abideable
• bearable
• endurable
• sufferable
• supportable
• tolerable

All synonyms and antonyms of insufferable

Forms of insufferable

Origin of insufferable

From Late Middle English insufferable (“unbearably painful, intolerable”), and then either: * from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”) (from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)); or * from Old French insouffrable (“which cannot be endured or suffered; something insufferable or unendurable”) (now dialectal), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + souffrable, suffrable. From Old French souffrable, suffrable are derived from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable.

Words formed from insufferable

• insufferableness
• insufferably

Related words

• suffer
• sufferable
• unsufferable

Questions about insufferable

What does insufferable mean?

Insufferable means not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.

What is insufferable in Hindi?

Insufferable in Hindi is दंभी (dambhī). See Insufferable meaning in Hindi.

How do you use insufferable in a sentence?

Assistance is impossible; condolence, insufferable.

What part of speech is insufferable?

Insufferable is an adjective.

How do you pronounce insufferable?

Insufferable is pronounced /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/ (UK).