unendurable
adjective
, -ˈdyu̇r-, -en-\
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, -ˈdyu̇r- , -en- \
adverb
Synonyms & Antonyms for unendurable
Synonyms
insufferable, insupportable, intolerable, unbearable, unsupportable
Antonyms
endurable, sufferable, supportable, sustainable, tolerable
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President Bush was irrelevant to the indictment but faced an unendurable weekend of hostile press. — C. Boyden Gray, WSJ, "Bush’s Proud Domestic Legacy," 4 Dec. 2018 To feel the net of the law closing in on him slowly—the stress must have been absolutely unendurable. — Lorraine Boissoneault, Smithsonian, "The True Story of “A Very English Scandal” and the Trials of a Closeted Gay Politician," 27 June 2018 Their ability to endure the seemingly unendurable is simply amazing. — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, "Why this Kentucky plant is the 'Manolo Blahniks' of the garden world," 22 June 2018 An unnamed actor played by Nicolas Duvauchelle, this one has it all—narcissism, fatuousness, self-doubt and a gift for talking about himself at unendurable length. — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, "‘Let the Sunshine In’ Review: The Infinite Allure of Mr. Wrong," 26 Apr. 2018 His cotton manuscript gloves left no one in any doubt that Spitalfields was unendurable to anyone of refinement. — Andrew Liptak, The Verge, "Read an excerpt from Luna author Ian McDonald’s heartbreaking new time-travel romance," 31 Mar. 2018 Not because the parallels between that fiction and her fact would be unendurable. — Jon Wertheim, SI.com, "Three Billboards Outside Memphis: Lorenzen Wright's Mother Seeks Justice," 27 Feb. 2018 Medicinal chemists have the demanding job of examining these interactions to find those involved in disease, and then to find drugs that treat the disease without causing unendurable side effects. — Bradley J. Fikes, sandiegouniontribune.com, "Scripps' Ben Cravatt elected to National Academy of Medicine," 16 Oct. 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'unendurable.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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