unbearable
English
Etymology
From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.
Adjective
unbearable (comparative more unbearable, superlative most unbearable)
- So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
- 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- 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.
Synonyms
Translations
so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable
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