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Regrettable vs Insupportable - What's the difference?

regrettable | insupportable |

As adjectives the difference between regrettable and insupportable

is that regrettable is of an event, action, or state, allowing or deserving regret while insupportable is not supportable; incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; unsupportable; insufferable; intolerable.

regrettable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of an event, action, or state, allowing or deserving regret.
    • His painting his name of my car was more than regrettable , it was criminal.
    It was regrettable that the teacher made the class retake the test when he was wrong about the answers.

    Related terms

    * * regret * regrettably * regretter * regretful * regretfulness * regretfully

    See also

    * pitiful

    insupportable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • not supportable; incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; unsupportable; insufferable; intolerable.

    • Related terms

    * insupportableness * insupportably

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