insufferable
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7.5
- adjective
- /ɪnˈsʌfərəbəl/
:
insoportable
- The constant noise from the construction site made it insufferable to work from home.
- insufferable arrogance
So I'm going to learn how to be an insufferable human being.
- So I'm going to learn how to be an insufferable human being.
- And I become increasingly more insufferable as I am surrounded by more people.
- And you know, on the on the bread episode, I was insufferable.
- I'm Bree Summers and I'm insufferable.
- We appreciate that the pressure to conform to political correctness is insufferable.
- Like this one felt a bit like annoying, like a little bit, but this one was insufferable.
- If they're getting it, they deflect it so that they don't keep it and they don't become insufferable.
- Another instance of Blank being insufferable.
- I don't care how rude, how insufferable, how stupid the customer is, you can't hang up on them.
- Communicating with each other, you know, highlights insufferable people.
- However, she is at her most insufferable age.
- And it's like it's just an hour of that and is insufferable.
- If you marry the wrong person where every mundane thing in life is the just insufferable then.
- It is redundant to say crew team be like saying insufferable jackals some British people.
- And it's also a reminder that you, the audience, both is and are beep insufferable.
Examples
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Stop that insufferable droning!
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The insufferable purgatory of being too old to be a kid, too young to be an adult.
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There is something more insufferable than a commercial.
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Yes We Can, later turned into an insufferable pop song.
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The list of things that make me completely insufferable just keeps getting longer and longer.
Blog text (18) -
You don't know how insufferable that is!
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Reiter's former cook had found him so insufferable that she had quit.
Fiction book (1991) -
There was an arrogance in him that should have been insufferable, but instead made him even more attractive.
Fiction book (2000) -
Mr. Darcy, you're an insufferable prig.
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The store was closed for remodeling for two insufferable weeks during which I did without Tootsie Rolls and licorice.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
392
1.0
Making someone feel bothered or irritated
215
1.0
Not nice and causing discomfort or unhappiness
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5.1
Very unpleasant in a way that makes people angry or upset
89
3.9
Too painful or unpleasant to stand
80
2.9
Making someone feel annoyed or impatient
42
4.9
So unpleasant or painful that you cannot bear it
31
6.7
Causing people to feel offended or want to protest
26
5.3
Causing you to feel very angry or annoyed
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5.3
Very annoying and hard to bear
10
4.2
Someone or something that is hard to like because they have qualities people dislike
9
7.4
Tastes bad or is hard to accept
9
6.5
Very unpleasant and causing people to feel strong dislike or hate
6
3.9
Unpleasant to do or feel and causing annoyance
6
6.1
Making you feel very annoyed and frustrated
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7.4
Making you feel annoyed or bored
4
9.5
Very bad and unpleasant, causing strong dislike
3
8.0
Too unpleasant or painful to bear
1
4.8
Unpleasant to the senses, like a bitter taste or bright light
So bad or strong that you cannot stand it
Very annoying in a way that makes you want to hit someone
Antonyms
How Unpleasant
Surface Forms
Morphology
insufferable = sufferable (semi-transparent) = in + suffer + able
The negative prefix gives a clear opposite meaning, but the base word 'sufferable' is rare and not familiar to many learners.
Etymology
The word insufferable has the prefix in- meaning 'not' and the root suffer which means 'to bear' or 'to endure'. So something insufferable is literally 'not able to be borne', which is why we use it for a person or thing that is extremely unpleasant or impossible to endure.