insufferable

FREQ #22820

a. 不可忍受的, 忍耐不住的

发音

US /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/
其它
UK /ɪnˈsʌfəɹəb(ə)l/
US /ɪnˈsʌfɹəb(ə)l/
UK /ɪnˈsʌfɹəb(ə)l/

词形变化

more insufferable 比较级 most insufferable 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure; intolerable, unbearable.

    难以忍受的

词汇关系

词源

From Late Middle English insufferable (“unbearably painful, intolerable”), and then either: * from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable, souffrable (“bearable, endurable, tolerable; allowable, permissible; able to or willing to bear hardship; forbearing, long-suffering; calm, self-restrained, slow to anger; capable of suffering”) (from Anglo-Norman sufferable, souffrable, and Old French souffrable, suffrable (“sufferable, tolerable”)); or * from Old French insouffrable (“which cannot be endured or suffered; something insufferable or unendurable”) (now dialectal), from in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + souffrable, suffrable. From Old French souffrable, suffrable are derived from Medieval Latin sufferābilis, from Latin sufferre + -ābilis (suffix meaning ‘able or worthy to be’); while sufferre is the present active infinitive of sufferō, subferō (“to bear or carry under; to bear, endure, suffer, undergo”), from sub- (prefix meaning ‘below, under’) + ferō (“to bear, carry; to endure, suffer, tolerate”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to bear, carry”)). The English word is analysable as in- (prefix meaning ‘not’) + sufferable.

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