unsufferable
Adjective: * Unbearable, intolerable: Used to describe a person or their behavior that is so unpleasant, annoying, or extreme that it is difficult or impossible to endure. This is a less common variant of the standard word insufferable.
The word unsufferable describes a quality that makes someone or their actions extremely difficult to tolerate.
Describing a person's character:
- After his promotion, he became utterly unsufferable, boasting about it constantly.
- Her unsufferable arrogance made it hard for anyone to work with her.
Describing specific behavior or attitudes:
- The critic's unsufferable condescension offended everyone at the lecture.
- I find his know-it-all attitude completely unsufferable.
- The form unsufferable is a recognized but less frequent variant of insufferable. In modern usage, insufferable is the standard and more widely accepted spelling.
- It is often used for dramatic or emphatic effect to convey a strong sense of personal annoyance or frustration.
- Insufferable (adj.): The standard and more common form of the word, with the same meaning.
- The heat in the room was insufferable.
- Sufferable (adj.): (Rare) Able to be endured or tolerated.
- Unsuffering (adj.): (Very rare) Not suffering; not enduring.
- Unbearable: Too unpleasant or painful to bear.
- Intolerable: Unable to be endured.
- Insupportable: Unable to be supported or endured.
- Odious: Extremely unpleasant; repulsive.
- Pleasant: Giving a sense of happy satisfaction or enjoyment.
- Agreeable: Enjoyable and pleasant.
- Tolerable: Able to be endured.
- Endurable: Able to be tolerated or suffered.
The core meaning of unsufferable is consistent: it signifies an extreme level of unpleasantness that challenges one's patience or capacity to endure. It is almost exclusively used in a subjective, critical sense about people and their traits (e.g., arrogance, rudeness, snobbery) rather than physical pain.
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used of persons or their behavior
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impossible behavior
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insufferable insolence
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