Unsufferable
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ʌnˈsʌfəɹəbəl/ · Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Unsufferable is an adjective meaning Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.
Meaning
Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.
Example Sentences
[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.
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 […]
[W]ould it not be an unsufferable crime in a steward, on the strength of the forementioned false imagination, for to lay out great sums of his lord's money on building himself a noble house, and the mean while to let his lord's house lie in a mean, or even ruinous condition?
[W]hilſt he heſitated there, the criſis of pleaſure overtook him, and the cloſe compreſſure of the vvarm ſurrounding fold, drevv from him the extatic guſh, even before mine vvas ready to meet it, kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the courſe of the engagement, from the unſufferable ſize of his vveapon, tho' it vvas not as yet in above half its length.
Synonyms for unsufferable
Depending on context, synonyms include impossible, intolerable, unacceptable, insufferable.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include insufferable, intolerable, unacceptable, impossible, unendurable, unsupportable.
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