Intractable vs Insufferable - What's the difference?

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Intractable is a related term of insufferable.

As adjectives the difference between intractable and insufferable

is that intractable is not tractable or to be drawn or guided by persuasion; not easily governed, managed, or directed; uncontrollable; incurable; violent; stubborn; obstinate while insufferable is not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.

intractable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not tractable or to be drawn or guided by persuasion; not easily governed, managed, or directed; uncontrollable; incurable; violent; stubborn; obstinate.

Derived terms

* intractability * intractableness * intractably

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insufferable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not sufferable; very difficult or impossible to endure.

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* , Lady Susan , ch. 22:

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.

* 1894 , , The Coxon Fund , ch. 4:

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.

* 1913 , , The Custom of the Country , ch. 13:

Marvell . . . thought Peter a bore in society and an insufferable nuisance on closer terms.

* 2011 June 7, " Chaos in Syria," Time :

The oppressive heat has become insufferable in Syria — and as the temperature climbs, emotions get harder to contain.

Synonyms

* intolerable, unbearable