insufferableadj.
/ɪnˈsʌfərəb(ə)l/ Not sufferable; that cannot be borne or endured; insupportable, intolerable, unbearable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [adjective]
untholelyc1225
untholinga1300
unsufferablea1325
untolerablea1382
importable1402
untholefula1425
unbearablec1449
unportablea1500
impassible1508
intolerablea1513
insupportable1530
insufferable1533
incomportable1574
impatient1590
intollerous1594
unsuffered1598
supportless1602
unsupportable1602
indurable1607
impatible1623
unbrookable1633
unsustainable1662
unendurable1801
impassive1828
punishing1833
thick1884
1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) v. 425 To be irkit with owre ithand and insuffirabil lauboure.
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 9 We found so great, so insufferable heat, as you will hardly imagine that bodyes..could indure.
1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. xiii Now Age has overtaken me; and Want, a more insufferable Evil..has wholly disenabl'd me.
1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 429. ⁋2 A vain Person is the most insufferable Creature living in a well-bred Assembly.
1827 J. Keble Christian Year II. lxxix. 112 Still gazing, though untaught to bear Th' insufferable light.
1845 G. P. R. James Arrah Neil II. vi This insolence is insufferable.
Derivatives
inˈsufferableness n. the quality or condition of being insufferable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [noun]
intolerableness1579
insupportablenessa1586
insufferableness1592
intolerability1598
unsufferableness1611
unsupportableness1672
importableness1677
unbearableness1730
unendurability1858
unendurableness1894
1592 A. Day Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) i. sig. L3 By the indignitie, by the vniustnes, by the wickednesse or impietie, by the insufferablenes.
1889 Cape Law Jrnl. 196 Any one who..out of insufferableness (or insupportableness) withdraws himself from the marriage bond, or goes away and leaves his spouse, with the intention not to return to her again, leaves the innocent party free to re-marry.
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