unbearable
B2
adj
Freq #8330
Meanings
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1
adj
incapable of being put up with
The construction noise outside my bedroom was unbearable.
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2
adj
So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.
Etymology
From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.
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Synonyms
1
adj
· incapable of being put up with
intolerable
2
adj
· so unpleasant or painful as...
insufferableunsupportable