Unsufferable

//ʌnˈsʌfəɹəbəl// adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.

    "The heate of this place is wonderfull; the earth itselfe being almost unsufferable, and which the subterranean fires have made so hollow, by having wasted the matter for so many years, that it sounds like a drum to those who walke upon it […]"

Adjective
  1. 1
    too extreme to bear wordnet

Synonyms

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insufferableinsufferable

Example

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"The heate of this place is wonderfull; the earth itselfe being almost unsufferable, and which the subterranean fires have made so hollow, by having wasted the matter for so many years, that it sounds like a drum to those who walke upon it […]"

Etymology

From un- + suffer + -able.

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