Definition of unbearable
: not bearable : unendurable
- unbearable pain
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Examples of unbearable in a Sentence
We were in an almost unbearable state of excitement.
this heat is unbearable—when are we going to get air-conditioning?
Recent Examples of unbearable from the Web
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Good, because an entire episode of waking comatose sorrow was nearly unbearable to watch.
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Yet many of their replacements have come from state environmental agencies that also get funding from the EPA, which, according to Pruitt, isn’t an unbearable conflict of interest.
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Sometimes, what feels at first like unbearable change is just a conversion, from one system of measurements to another.
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The containers had been in limbo since January, Mayor Hall said, and the material inside smelled of rotting animals and made being outdoors nearly unbearable, especially on a warm day.
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Adding to her misery is an exquisite sensitivity to light, sound and smell that makes ordinary stimuli—even perfume—unbearable and the headache even worse.
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There are no unbearable scenes where Shawn makes a nonsensical decision or delivers an unrealistic monologue.
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All this led to waste, rigidity and unbearable complexity.
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The cramps were unbearable, weighing me down like an iron fist.
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First Known Use of unbearable
15th century
unbearable Synonyms
Synonyms
insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unendurable, unsupportable;
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Related Words
comfortless, hard, harsh, painful, uncomfortable;
appalling, dreadful, excruciating, gruesome (also grewsome), harrowing, horrendous, horrible, horrid, horrifying, nightmarish, shocking, terrible, tormenting, torturous, vile, wretched;
UNBEARABLE Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of unbearable for English Language Learners
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: too bad, harsh, or extreme to be accepted or endured : not bearable
UNBEARABLE Defined for Kids
Definition of unbearable for Students
: seeming too great or too bad to put up with
- There was a long, unbearable silence.
- —Blue Balliett, Chasing Vermeer
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unbearably
\-blē\ adverb- an unbearably long story
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