Adjective: Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure. 1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3 kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the course of the engagement, from the insufferable size of his weapon, tho' it was not as yet in above half its length. c. 1795, Jane Austen, Lady Susan, ch. 22: This is insufferable! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before,and must relieve myself by writing to you. . . . Guess my astonishment, and vexation. 1894, Henry James, The Coxon Fund, ch. 4: Saltram was incapable of keeping the engagements which, after their separation, he had entered into with regard to his wife, a deeply wronged, justly resentful, quite irreproachable and insufferable person. 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, ch. 13: Marvell . . . thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms. 2011 June 7, "Chaos in Syria," Time: The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria — and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Part 3 kept up by the pain I had endur'd in the course of the engagement, from the insufferable size of his weapon, tho' it was not as yet in above half its length.c. 1795, Jane Austen, Lady Susan, ch. 22: This is insufferable! My dearest friend, I was never so enraged before,and must relieve myself by writing to you. . . . Guess my astonishment, and vexation.1894, Henry James, The Coxon Fund, ch. 4: Saltram was incapable of keeping the engagements which, after their separation, he had entered into with regard to his wife, a deeply wronged, justly resentful, quite irreproachable and insufferable person.1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, ch. 13: Marvell . . . thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms.2011 June 7, "Chaos in Syria," Time: The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria — and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.
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