Insufferable vs Unanswerable - What's the difference?
insufferable | unanswerable | Related terms |
Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.
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Not answerable; impossible to answer.
Impossible to dispute or rebut; irrefutable; conclusive.
As adjectives the difference between insufferable and unanswerable
is that insufferable is not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure while unanswerable is not answerable; impossible to answer.As a noun unanswerable is
something that cannot be answered.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.
