unsufferable
/ʌnˈsʌfəɹəbəl/
unsufferable adjective: not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.
Adjective
unsufferable (comparative more unsufferable, superlative most unsufferable)
- Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.
- 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 […]1645 February 15 (Gregorian calendar), John Evelyn, “[Diary entry for 6 February 1645]”, in William Bray, editor, Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life and Writings of John Evelyn, […], 2nd edition...
- [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.1734, Isaac Barrow, translated by John Kirkby, The Usefulness of Mathematical Learning Explained and Demonstrated: Being Mathematical Lectures Read in the Publick Schools at the University of...
Forms of unsufferable
| comparative | more unsufferable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most unsufferable |
Origin of unsufferable
From un- + suffer + -able.
Words formed from unsufferable
Questions about unsufferable
- What does unsufferable mean?
- Unsufferable means not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.
- What part of speech is unsufferable?
- Unsufferable is an adjective.
- How do you pronounce unsufferable?
- Unsufferable is pronounced /ʌnˈsʌfəɹəbəl/.
Words near unsufferable in the dictionary
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