Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective So unpleasant, distasteful, or painful as to be intolerable.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Not to be borne or endured; intolerable.
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- adjective so
unpleasant orpainful as to beunendurable
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective incapable of being put up with
Etymologies
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Examples
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I will not tolerate his presence on the radio or t.v. I sincerely hope that Becky dies penniless, alone, neglected, in unbearable agony and rotting away in his own excrement.
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated) 2010
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As the Governess, Elizabeth Atherton sang with restless ardour, in unbearable thrall to her charges and locked into her own battle between reality and the wispy figments of a love-starved imagination.
The Turn of the Screw; Ariadne auf Naxos; Les pêcheurs de perles; Mitsuko Uchida Fiona Maddocks 2010
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I wouldn't be sitting there acting like I'm in unbearable pain.
7stacks Does OS X Stacks In Windows 7 Style | Lifehacker Australia 2009
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I will not tolerate his presence on the radio or t.v. I sincerely hope that Becky dies penniless, alone, neglected, in unbearable agony and rotting away in his own excrement.
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated) 2010
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I will not tolerate his presence on the radio or t.v. I sincerely hope that Becky dies penniless, alone, neglected, in unbearable agony and rotting away in his own excrement.
Think Progress » Van Jones to Glenn Beck: ‘I see you, and I love you, brother.’ (Updated) 2010
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Clinton supporters need to end this for her, it would be the most humane thing to do ... same as if you hit a deer that was dying and in unbearable pain.
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Assuming that it's only a great disaster such as flood or famine that makes one's burden unbearable is just not always true.
Living the Dream 2007
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And since he was in unbearable pain that almost immediate operation which left him totally without pain offesets a good deal of the cost.
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Kirk saw her grimace slightly—an expression of unbearable pain in a Vulcan—as she leaned into the force field, trying to push her way through.
DARK VICTORY WILLIAM SHATNER 1999
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Eventually, foreign demands on Fort Knox for dollar conversion into gold, coupled with a growing U.S. trade deficit, resulted in unbearable pressures on the system's integrity.
Free Markets, Foreign Exchange and the International Monetary Market 1986
oroboros commented on the word unbearable
At a posh Manhattan dinner party, a Latin American visitor was telling the guests about this home country and himself. As he concluded, he said, "And I have a charming and understanding wife but, alas, no children."
As his listeners appeared to be waiting for him to continue, he said, haltingly, "You see, my wife is unbearable."
Puzzled glances prompted him to try to clarify the matter: "What I mean is, my wife is inconceivable."
As his companions seemed amused, he floundered deeper into the intricacies of the English language, explaining triumphantly, "That is, my wife, she is impregnable!"
March 10, 2010