insupportable

Examples

• All

• Her insupportable workload left her feeling overwhelmed and exhausted every day.

• Rome was insupportable, and even in the Hills the temperature at noon was over a hundred.

  Fiction book (1991)

• I know, such delay is insupportable, especially when we're both in London.

  Love & Friendship (2016)

• Keep them on the hook with insupportable debt.

  Blog text (26)

• Now that her shame had gone, she felt terror more than anything else, and a nearly insupportable anger.

  Fiction book (1993)

• I quit Port-au-Prince because my husband had become insupportable, a Duvalier of the household.

  Fiction book (1990)

• Mrs. Boynton's death gave her family not only financial independence but also a liberation from a tyranny, which had become well nigh insupportable.

  Appointment with Death (1988)

• On the other hand, one has to learn to tolerate the seemingly insupportable slowness, the maddening, difficult muddle that the extension of the principle of tolerance to a new area entails.

  Academic text (1998)

• The heat during the summer months can be insupportable, making it hard to enjoy outdoor activities.

• With constant noise and disturbances, the city life became insupportable for him, so he decided to move to the countryside.

Synonyms

U

unbearable

vsinsupportable

89 3.9

Too painful or unpleasant to stand

focuses more on pain or discomfort rather than general difficulty

I

intolerable

vsinsupportable

42 4.9

So unpleasant or painful that you cannot bear it

is used broadly for things that cannot be accepted or endured

U

unendurable

vsinsupportable

3 8.0

Too unpleasant or painful to bear

is broader and stresses both inability to endure and to accept

U

unassuageable

vsinsupportable

1 9.9

Impossible to calm or satisfy

is about being too difficult or unpleasant rather than only impossible to calm

U

unsufferable

vsinsupportable

8.4

So bad or strong that you cannot stand it

expresses the same strong inability to be accepted but for general extremes

U

unrelievable

vsinsupportable

9.2

Not possible to make less painful or severe

focuses on being impossible to accept rather than only lacking relief

U

unswallowable

vsinsupportable

9.3

Too hard or unpleasant to accept

applies more to ideas that are hard to accept rather than to physical pain

Antonyms

A

acceptable

477 2.5

Good enough for a particular use or standard

B

bearable

25 3.2

Not too painful or unpleasant to handle

How Tolerable

bearable

25 3.2

uncomfortable

713 1.7

difficult

∞ 1.6

insupportable

• Formal

1 7.2

Surface Forms

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Etymology