as in intolerable
more than can be put up with
this heat is unbearable—when are we going to get air-conditioning?
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Recent Examples of unbearable
The fear of failure creeps in, the weight of expectations becomes unbearable and the workload that once felt manageable now seems impossible to do.
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Tasks as simple as putting on shoes become unbearable.
—Health, 20 May 2025
Just 15 seconds into my first treatment with the freezing helmet latched to my head and with six more hours to go, the cold was unbearable.
—Maria Yagoda, Vox, 9 May 2025
Soon, the elementary school science teacher's pains became unbearable.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Tasks as simple as putting on shoes become unbearable.
—Health, 20 May 2025
Just 15 seconds into my first treatment with the freezing helmet latched to my head and with six more hours to go, the cold was unbearable.
—Maria Yagoda, Vox, 9 May 2025
Soon, the elementary school science teacher's pains became unbearable.
—Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 29 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for unbearable
Adjective
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Partner with the Jewish community, not only in mourning, but in steadfast determination to build a world where antisemitism is intolerable.—
Laurence Milstein,
Sun Sentinel,
4 June 2025
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Rios uses his voice and distinctive facial expressions to reveal both the noble and the intolerable facets of Oscar’s personality.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
24 May 2025
Adjective
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Without which the last phase of my mum’s life would have been unendurable.—
Geoff Dyer,
Harpers Magazine,
28 Mar. 2025
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The best among us rarely know what to say, how to look, how to be there for a friend who is enduring something unendurable.—
Amanda Nguyen,
TIME,
3 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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The auto-revive for solo players on Night Lords is to combat the intense difficulties of those fights where a single wrong move can be death.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes.com,
31 May 2025
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And, believe it or not, Europe does have air conditioning, which can be quite an intense shift when moving between the outdoors into coach buses or stores.—
Gregory Robinson,
Travel + Leisure,
31 May 2025
Adjective
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The Valkyries, though, fought back to avoid an overwhelming rout.—
Fiifi Frimpong,
New York Daily News,
28 May 2025
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Crow-Armstrong, 23, is currently under club control through the 2030 season, meaning there isn’t an overwhelming sense of urgency.—
Patrick Mooney,
New York Times,
28 May 2025
Adjective
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People who are staying with family members without a lease agreement, or who have inherited property informally, have long struggled to get federal help rebuilding after extreme weather, despite the fact that such families are less likely to have home insurance.—
Rebecca Hersher,
NPR,
5 June 2025
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In response, governments, NGOs, and the local people are striving to instill resilience into coastal communities, strengthen homes and infrastructure to better cope with extreme weather, and diversify incomes to mitigate the impact of a changing climate.—
Charlie Campbell,
Time,
5 June 2025
Adjective
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Suddenly, his humor was not endearing but insufferable.—
Charlotte Walsh,
Vulture,
5 May 2025
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Aliyah Mastin is perfect as Presley Collins who is one of the more realistic and relatable teen girls on TV, unlike her insufferable predecessors like Homeland’s Dana Brody or The American’s Paige Jennings.—
Kathleen Newman-Bremang,
refinery29.com,
21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
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Conservatives and Republicans in Congress continue to claim that the cost of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits is an insupportable burden on America, so benefits need to be cut, though President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to preserve entitlements like Social Security and Medicare.—
Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times,
7 Jan. 2025
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There are people of goodwill who think the way out of this insupportable situation lies in the fight for equal democratic rights in a single state for everyone living in the territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.—
Michelle Goldberg,
The Mercury News,
14 Mar. 2024
Adjective
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Kids these days have attention spans crushed under the terrible weight of TikTok and Instgram.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
3 June 2025
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The veto was a terrible blow to the cause of reparations, which has been gaining momentum across the country despite the Trump administration, which seems hell-bent on sending America backwards.—
Robert Turner,
Baltimore Sun,
2 June 2025
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“Unbearable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unbearable. Accessed 10 Jun. 2025.
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