E vs Insufferable - What's the difference?
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The fifth letter of the .
(label) The base of natural logarithms, a transcendental number with a value of approximately 2.718281828459
Symbol separating mantissa from the exponent in scientific notation.
close-mid front unrounded vowel
(l)
(label) electron
Image:Latin E.png, Capital and lowercase versions of E , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter E.png, Uppercase and lowercase E in Fraktur
Image:Uncial e.png, Approximate form of upper case letter E in uncial script that was the source for lower case e
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Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.
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, 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.}}
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As a letter e
is the letter e with a circumflex.As an adjective insufferable is
not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.e
Translingual
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See also
(Latn-script) * (select similar letters and symbols) * (other scripts) * SeeSymbol
(Close-mid front unrounded vowel) (head)- 1.2566e-6 = 1.2566 × 10-6
- a'' ? ''e''''' = '''''e'' ? ''a'' = ''a
Synonyms
* (electron) * (identity element) , (chiefly matrices) (l)See also
{{Letter , page=E , NATO=Echo , Morse=· , Character=E5 , Braille=? }}insufferable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
- 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.
- Marvell . . . thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms.
Chaos in Syria," Time :
- The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria — and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.
