unendurable

[US]/ʌnɪn'djʊərəb(ə)l/
[UK]/ˌʌnɪn'dʊrəbl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. intolerable; not able to be endured; not sustainable.

Example Sentences

cries of unendurable suffering.

Real-world Examples

In an atmosphere of casual anti-semitism the shame of truth was simply unendurable.

Source: BBC Listening January 2015 Collection

It was unendurable. Not even for Tara would she stay here another minute and be insulted.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.

Source: The Call of the Wild

There lay the cat asleep on the bare gravel of the path, as if beds, rugs, and carpets were unendurable.

Source: Returning Home

And yet the distance they appear to be imposing on us, through their lack of engagement, feels unendurable and humiliating.

Source: Sociology of Social Relations (Video Version)

He hated that officer, every officer—life was unendurable.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

Life would be unendurable without quarrels.

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

The suspense was hideous and unendurable.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 1)

The frog Philharmonic of the Florida lakes and marshes is unendurable in its sweetness.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

The mere presence of human passions is an unwelcome and, at his age, an almost unendurable unpleasantness.

Source: The Disappearing Horizon

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