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Insufferable definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INSUF'FERABLE, a. [in and sufferable.]
1. Intolerable; that cannot be borne or endured; as insufferable heat, cold or pain.
2. That cannot be permitted or tolerated.
Our wrongs are insufferable.
3. Detestable; contemptible; disgusting beyond endurance.
A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff--

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: used of persons or their behavior; "impossible behavior"; "insufferable insolence" [syn: impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferable]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 15th century not to be endured ; intolerable <an insufferable bore> • insufferableness noun • insufferably adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 intolerable. 2 unbearably arrogant or conceited etc. Derivatives: insufferableness n. insufferably adv.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Insufferable In*suf"fer*a*ble, a. 1. Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. --Locke. 2. Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. A multitude of scribblers who daily pester the world with their insufferable stuff. --Dryden.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

If you say that someone or something is insufferable, you are emphasizing that they are very unpleasant or annoying. (FORMAL) He was an insufferable bore. = unbearable ADJ [emphasis] • insufferably His letters are insufferably dull... ADV: ADV adj

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. 1. Intolerable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, that cannot be borne or endured. 2. Outrageous, disgusting, detestable, abominable, execrable.