Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. So unpleasant, distasteful, or painful as to be intolerable: unbearable heat.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Not to be borne or endured; intolerable.
Wiktionary
- adj. so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable
WordNet 3.0
- adj. incapable of being put up with
Etymologies
- un- + bearable. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“I wouldn't be sitting there acting like I'm in unbearable pain.”
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“I will not tolerate his presence on the radio or t.v. I sincerely hope that Becky dies penniless, alone, neglected, in unbearable agony and rotting away in his own excrement.”
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“As the Governess, Elizabeth Atherton sang with restless ardour, in unbearable thrall to her charges and locked into her own battle between reality and the wispy figments of a love-starved imagination.”
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“Clinton supporters need to end this for her, it would be the most humane thing to do ... same as if you hit a deer that was dying and in unbearable pain.”
“And since he was in unbearable pain that almost immediate operation which left him totally without pain offesets a good deal of the cost.”
“Assuming that it's only a great disaster such as flood or famine that makes one's burden unbearable is just not always true.”
“Kirk saw her grimace slightly—an expression of unbearable pain in a Vulcan—as she leaned into the force field, trying to push her way through.”
“Eventually, foreign demands on Fort Knox for dollar conversion into gold, coupled with a growing U.S. trade deficit, resulted in unbearable pressures on the system's integrity.”
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“Everything was unbearable from the moment he arrived – his first worried, compassionate glance when he saw her – dressed in a new navy blue straight frock made by the village dressmaker.”
“The bane of his existence at the time was a nylon uniform he was forced to wear and that he described as "unbearable.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘unbearable’.
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A-R-A Words
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scarab, Arawak, Sahara, Arab, pharaoh, caravan, carat, parachute, arachnid, Saran Wrap, Sarah, tarantella and 492 more...
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Sorrow is better than laughter; for b...
lachrymose, melancholic, sorrow, wail, mournful, sob, misery, wretchedness, anguish, agony, heartbreak, lament and 38 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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him and i
peach, left, alone, abandon, horid, gay, bloody, beautiful, outside, inside, confused, unconditional and 111 more...
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Un-word List
untrammelled, untoward, unenthusiastically, unenthusiastic, undaunted, uncanny, unceasing, unbridled, unacknowledged, unacquainted, unadorned, unaffected and 239 more...
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Mary and Max (2009)
Words from 2009 'Mary and Max' film.
muddy, puddle, birthmark, piggyback, pensive, gumnut, pompom, salvage, takeaway, oven, shed, deliberate and 112 more...
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GPaX. Words.
excogitate, clarity, obscurity, tangential, interesting, regurgitate, mycelium, degradation, unladen, swallow, klein, quote and 120 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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TT3 Lesson 26
unbearable, barely, swollen, blood, bleed, shot, anesthetic, Novocaine, wear off, pill, pain pill, recover and 11 more...
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cadence, fracture, utter, regression, incessant, inverted, trashy, suspend, waiting, semblance, unbearable, nausea and 35 more...
Tweets
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oroboros At a posh Manhattan dinner party, a Latin American visitor was telling the guests about this home country and himself. As he concluded, he said, "And I have a charming and understanding wife but, alas, no children."
As his listeners appeared to be waiting for him to continue, he said, haltingly, "You see, my wife is unbearable."
Puzzled glances prompted him to try to clarify the matter: "What I mean is, my wife is inconceivable."
As his companions seemed amused, he floundered deeper into the intricacies of the English language, explaining triumphantly, "That is, my wife, she is impregnable!" Mar 9, 2010