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Definition of Insufferable
1. Adjective. Used of persons or their behavior. "Insufferable insolence"
Similar to: Intolerable, Unbearable, Unendurable
Derivative terms: Unacceptability, Unacceptableness
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
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Insufferable
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insufferable
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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