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unsufferable (iou)



unsufferable adjective & adverb. Now rare or obsolete. ME.
[from UN-1 + SUFFERABLE.]
A. adjective.
That cannot be tolerated or endured; insufferable. ME.
Swift The..unsufferable cant of taking all occasions to disparage the heathen philosophers. Pope Unsufferable wrong Cries to the Gods.
Too intense or severe to be borne without discomfort; causing pain or grief; unbearable. ME.
S. Purchas The high ridges..are vnsufferable for cold. Defoe The unsufferable Torment of the Swellings.
B. adverb. = unsufferably. LME-L17.
unsufferableness noun LME-L17.
unsufferably adverb intolerably, unbearably; insufferably: LME-M18.