insufferable

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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: ĭn-sŭf'ər-ə-bəl
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/
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• General-American, Received-Pronunciation: /ɪnˈsʌfɹəb(ə)l/
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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 souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)); or * from Old French insouffrable (“which cannot be endured or suffered; something insufferable or unendurable”) (now dialectal), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + souffrable, suffrable. From Old French souffrable, suffrable are derived from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bher- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable.

60 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Armenian: անտանելի (antaneli) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Armenian: թշվառ (tʻšvaṙ) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Asturian: insoportable — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Azerbaijani: dözülməz — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Bulgarian: непоносим (neponosim) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Bulgarian: нетърпим (netǎrpim) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Catalan: insuportable — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Catalan: intolerable — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Chinese Mandarin: 難以忍受的 /难以忍受的 (nányǐrěnshòu de) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Czech: nesnesitelný — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Dutch: bij de beesten af — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Dutch: bij de konijnen af — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Dutch: onbestaanbaar — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Dutch: onduldbaar — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Dutch: ontoelaatbaar — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Finnish: sietämätön — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• French: insupportable — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• French: haïssable — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• French: intolérable — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Galician: insufríbel — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Georgian: აუტანელი (auṭaneli) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• German: unausstehlich — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• German: unerträglich — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• German: untragbar — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Greek: ανυπόφορος (anypóforos) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Greek: αβάσταχτος (avástachtos) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Ancient Greek: ἄλαστος (álastos) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Hindi: दंभी (dambhī) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Hungarian: lehetetlen — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Icelandic: ólíðandi — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Italian: insoffribile — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Italian: insopportabile — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Italian: intollerabile — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Latin: impetibilis — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Latin: intolerāns — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Lithuanian: abúojas — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Manx: neuhurransagh — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Polish: nieznośny — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Portuguese: insuportável — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Portuguese: intolerável — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Romanian: insuportabil — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Romanian: nerăbdabil — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Romanian: nesuferibil — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Romanian: nesuportabil — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Russian: невыноси́мый (nevynosímyj) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Scottish Gaelic: do-ghiùlan — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Serbo-Croatian: неподно̀шљив — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Serbo-Croatian: nepodnòšljiv — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Spanish: insufrible — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Spanish: insoportable — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Spanish: inaguantable — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Spanish: no haber quien lo aguante — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Swedish: odräglig — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Thai: เหลืออด (lʉ̌ʉa-òt) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Thai: เหลือทน (lʉ̌ʉa-ton) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Ukrainian: несте́рпний (nestérpnyj) — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Vietnamese: bất kham — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Vietnamese: bất nhẫn — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Vietnamese: không thể chịu đựng được — not sufferable — see also intolerable
• Woiwurrung: man-doin-qua-neen — not sufferable — see also intolerable