insufferable
Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/
The English word “insufferable” has 1 meaning listed here.
adjective
- Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.
Etymology
From Late Middle English insufferable (“unbearably painful, intolerable”), and then either: * from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”) (from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French…
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