Unfavorability vs Insufferable - What's the difference?
unfavorability | insufferable |
The quality of being unfavorable.
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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 noun unfavorability
is the quality of being unfavorable.As an adjective insufferable is
not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.unfavorability
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Alternative forms
* unfavourabilityNoun
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insufferable
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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.