Unbearable
adj
adj ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·College level
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
"The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable."
Adjective
- 1 incapable of being tolerated or endured wordnet
Antonyms
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More examples"The pain was almost unbearable."
Etymology
From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.
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