Definition of Insufferable

1. Adjective. Used of persons or their behavior. "Insufferable insolence"


Definition of Insufferable

1. a. Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs.

Definition of Insufferable

1. Adjective. Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure. ¹

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Definition of Insufferable

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insufferable

insubordination
insubordinations
insubstantial
insubstantialities
insubstantiality
insubstantially
insubstantive
insuccation
insuccations
insuccess
insuck
insucken
insucking
insudate
insuetude
insufferable
insufferableness
insufferably
insufficience
insufficiencies
insufficiency
insufficient
insufficiently
insufflate
insufflated
insufflates
insufflating
insufflation
insufflation anaesthesia
insufflations

Literary usage of Insufferable

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"western edge, and an insufferable splendor streamed across the world from the sinking sun. Tho whole heaven was in a blaze of scarlet, across which sprang a ..."

2. English Synonymes Explained in Alphabetical Order: With Copious by George Crabb (1881)
"Hell heard the insufferable noise, hell saw Heav'n running from heav'n,and would have fled Affrighted ; but that fate had^bs'd too deep Her dark foundations ..."

3. History of Civilization in England by Henry Thomas Buckle (1913)
"... if we did not know that they were the result of his own turbulent ambition, of his insufferable arrogance, but, above all, of a grasping and restless ..."

4. The Lives of the Right Hon. Francis North, Baron Guilford, Lord Keeper of by Roger North (1826)
"... fall upon them, ranting and scolding with a virulence insufferable. Some- time before his lordship was preferred Digression to the great seal, ..."

5. Plutarch's Lives: The Translation Called Drydens's by Plutarch (1885)
"... of solitude, made him insufferable. With the skill which Alcibiades, on the contrary, possessed to treat every one in the way most agreeable to him, ..."

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