Shocking vs Insufferable - What's the difference?
shocking | insufferable | Related terms |
Inspiring shock; startling
Unusually obscene or lewd
(colloquial) Extremely bad
The application of an electric shock.
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Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.
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Shocking is a related term of insufferable.
As adjectives the difference between shocking and insufferable
is that shocking is inspiring shock; startling while insufferable is not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.As a verb shocking
is .As a noun shocking
is the application of an electric shock.shocking
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(en noun)- We terrorize millions of vulnerable and defenseless animals daily with painful shockings , beatings, brandings,
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*insufferable
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(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.