Unsufferable vs Null - What's the difference?
unsufferable | null |
Not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.
* John Evelyn; The diary of John Evelyn , Frederick Warne and Co.,
* 1813 ; Isaac Watts; The works of the Rev. Isaac Watts D.D. in nine volumes, Volume 6 , Edward Baines,
* 1839 ; Edward Wells, William Dowsing; The rich man's duty to contribute liberally to the building, rebuilding, repairing, beautifying, and adorning of churches , Oxford: T. Combe,
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective unsufferable
is not able to be suffered, difficult or impossible to endure; insufferable.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.unsufferable
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Alternative forms
* insufferableAdjective
(en adjective)page 129
- The heate of this place is wonderfull; the earth itselfe being almost unsufferable , and which the subterranean fires have made so hollow, by having wasted the matter for so many years, that it sounds like a drum to those who walke upon it...
page 504
- It is possible that these expressions of God's covering Moses with his hand while the glory of God past by, and Moses seeing the back parts of God, may signify no more than this, that in this particular appearance of God he arrayed himself in beams of light of such unsufferable splendor, that it would have destroyed the body of Moses had not God sheltered and protected him...
page 139
- ...would it not be an unsufferable crime in a steward, on the strength of the forementioned false imagination, for to lay out great sums of his lord's money on building himself a noble house, and the mean while to let his lord's house lie in a mean, or even ruinous condition?
Usage notes
Like insufferable, this is usually meant as a derogatory expression of frustration targeted at something.null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.