UNBEARABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbearable mean? 

• UNBEARABLE (adjective)
  The adjective UNBEARABLE has 1 sense:

1. incapable of being tolerated or endured

  Familiarity information: UNBEARABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBEARABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of being tolerated or endured

Synonyms:

intolerable; unbearable; unendurable

Context example:

an intolerable degree of sentimentality

Similar:

bitter (very difficult to accept or bear)

insufferable; unsufferable (too extreme to bear)

impossible; unacceptable ((used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable)

insufferable (unbearably arrogant or conceited)

unsupportable (not able to be supported or defended)

Also:

impermissible (not permitted)

Derivation:

unbearably (to an unbearable degree)

 Context examples 

Life was ill, or, rather, it had become ill—an unbearable thing.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Check Yes or No if the adjective applies to your pain; unbearable.

(BPI - Unbearable, NCI Thesaurus)

"Then, if you don't mind, I'll go with you," said the Lion, "for my life is simply unbearable without a bit of courage."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

His face was blistering in the heat, his eyebrows and lashes were singed off, and the heat was becoming unbearable to his feet.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

If each, I told myself, could be housed in separate identities, life would be relieved of all that was unbearable; the unjust might go his way, delivered from the aspirations and remorse of his more upright twin; and the just could walk steadfastly and securely on his upward path, doing the good things in which he found his pleasure, and no longer exposed to disgrace and penitence by the hands of this extraneous evil.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

"You are unbearable," she wept.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)