Meaning & use
Insufferably
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In a manner that is unbearably annoying, arrogant, or difficult to tolerate.
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He became insufferably smug after winning the trivia contest.
The meeting dragged on in an insufferably boring fashion.
A note on using this word
Combines the negative prefix 'in-' with 'sufferably', from Latin 'sufferre', meaning to bear or endure.
Words with a similar meaning
unbearablyintolerably
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Words with an opposite meaning
tolerablypleasantly
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