unendurable
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- adjective
- /ˌʌnɪnˈdjʊrəbəl/
:
insoportable
- Before life becomes truly unlivable, it will for a very long time be simply unendurable.
- unendurable pain
- almost unendurable
- nearly unendurable
And I felt so much pain, not only physical but psychic in a way that felt unendurable.
- And I felt so much pain, not only physical but psychic in a way that felt unendurable.
Examples
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Eventually, the pressure of life without hope becomes unendurable.
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The noise from the construction site was so loud that it became unendurable during the night.
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I could have continued my career, only I found everything unendurable after she had left me.
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"Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.
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"but the pain of their loss is unendurable."
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My God, this is unendurable!
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I mean, look at all the years of unendurable crap I've had to put up with.
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When sufferings become unendurable, the cries are no longer heard.
Blog text (18) -
Many are bearing up under the most unendurable stress with courage and just plain grit.
Blog text (2) -
Recovering in Guildford, England, at the end of that year-long ordeal, he had suffered a thunderclap of nearly unendurable grief, a bereavement that would leave him stunned and crazy in the night for the remainder.
Fiction book (2001)
Synonyms
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3.9
Too painful or unpleasant to stand
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4.9
So unpleasant or painful that you cannot bear it
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7.5
So unpleasant you cannot stand it
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7.2
Too unpleasant or extreme to bear
So bad or strong that you cannot stand it
Too hard or unpleasant to accept
Antonyms
How Tolerable
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3.5
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8.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Unendurable begins with un- meaning 'not', and the rest comes from endure, which means 'to bear' and is like durable, meaning 'able to last'. So unendurable is something 'not able to be borne' or too unpleasant to tolerate.