unbearable

adjective

ˌən-ˈber-ə-bəl How to pronounce unbearable (audio)
Definition of unbearablenext
as in intolerable
more than can be put up with this heat is unbearable—when are we going to get air-conditioning?

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Recent Examples of unbearable For nearly thirty years, these families have carried the unbearable weight of loss while waiting for accountability. — Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 15 July 2026 Air conditioning saves lives when outdoor temperatures are unbearable. — Chelsea Follett, Washington Post, 14 July 2026 When an engine fire knocked out power and plumbing for five days, 4,000 passengers were stranded with overflowing sewage — including, yes, poop — spoiled food and unbearable heat. — Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 14 July 2026 Much of the country is at the mercy of Russian missiles that have hammered its power grid since 2022, making winters almost unbearable. — Illia Novikov, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for unbearable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbearable
  1. intolerable
  2. intense
  3. extreme
  4. overwhelming
  5. unendurable
  6. terrible
  7. insufferable
  8. unacceptable
Adjective
  • Gérald Marie potentially raped dozens of young women between the 1980s and the 2000s, acting with a sense of total impunity and within an utterly intolerable culture of rape.
    — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 July 2026
  • The goal, the former official explained, was to make life in such a place so intolerable that detainees would be compelled to leave the country altogether.
    — David Remnick, New Yorker, 13 July 2026
Definition of intolerable
Adjective
  • His plan, scheduled for a vote at the Beach commission on Wednesday after two years of often-intense debate and revision, comes in the prosaic form of a technical zoning change.
    — Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 22 July 2026
  • Criticism from the political left was, predictably, swift and intense.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 22 July 2026
Definition of intense
Adjective
  • Connecticut famers have been awaiting access to such relief after experiencing damages caused by disasters and extreme weather events in 2023 and 2024.
    — Lisa Hagen, Hartford Courant, 25 July 2026
  • The filmmakers have conceived a world that is both funny and extreme, navigating themes of bodily autonomy for both males and females through the playful and the monstrous.
    — William Earl, Variety, 25 July 2026
Definition of extreme
Adjective
  • With this World Cup and its even bigger numbers, overwhelming media coverage and an American team that actually came with expectations, doors were knocked down.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2026
  • Given the propensity of today to look a lot like yesterday, the odds that tomorrow will look like today are overwhelming.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 25 July 2026
Definition of overwhelming
Adjective
  • Things grew worse that Tuesday night, and unendurable weather drove us into the plane at daybreak on Wednesday.
    — Ben East, Outdoor Life, 14 May 2026
  • Apocalypse has always been an escapist fantasy in unendurable times.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 May 2025
Definition of unendurable
Adjective
  • Why do some people stay in terrible, horrible, no good, very bad jobs?
    — Joseph Kim, NPR, 22 July 2026
  • Three years ago, Victor Wembanyama was terrible, and Houston’s Cam Whitmore won Summer MVP.
    — John Hollinger, New York Times, 22 July 2026
Definition of terrible
Adjective
  • As your insufferable friend has probably already told you, all tequila is a type of mezcal, but not all mezcals are tequila.
    — Sam Stone, Bon Appetit Magazine, 23 July 2026
  • And Johnson's insufferable comments about representation didn't help.
    — Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 12 July 2026
Definition of insufferable
Adjective
  • Tell them that their behavior is embarrassing and unacceptable.
    — Harriette Cole, Mercury News, 23 July 2026
  • Other officials told me that, in meetings of White House staff, Finer, the deputy national-security adviser, often asked what civilian death toll would be deemed unacceptable.
    — David D. Kirkpatrick, New Yorker, 20 July 2026
Definition of unacceptable

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