Select the word opposite in meaning to the word: Insufferable
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 3
The correct answer is Option (3) → Endurable
Insufferable means too unpleasant or annoying to bear. Its antonym is endurable.
Example: The heat in the crowded bus was insufferable.
| Word | Meaning | Example |
|---|---|---|
| (1) Painful | causing pain (it is on the same side as insufferable, not opposite) | The injection was painful but quick. |
| (2) Deficient | lacking something that is needed (it is unrelated to bearing something) | His diet is deficient in iron. |
| (3) Endurable (answer) | able to be borne, bearable (something that cannot be borne and something that can be borne are opposites) | The pain was endurable after the medicine started working. |
| (4) Suppressible | able to be held back or controlled, such as a feeling or a cough (it does not mean bearable) | Her laughter was hardly suppressible during the speech. |
| Synonyms of insufferable: unbearable, intolerable, unendurable, insupportable Antonyms of insufferable: endurable, bearable, tolerable, acceptable |