Unbearably

adv

adv ·4 syllables ·Uncommon ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adverb
  1. 1
    In an unbearable manner, not bearably, in a way unable to be borne.

    "Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society."

Adverb
  1. 1
    to an unbearable degree wordnet

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agonizinglyawfullybitterlyblatantlycruellydeadly

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"It is unbearably hot this summer."

Etymology

From unbearable + -ly or un- + bearably.

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