Insupportable
[ɪnsə'pɔːtəb(ə)l] or [,ɪnsə'pɔrtəbl]
Definition
(a.) Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Intolerable, unbearable, unendurable, insufferable.
Checker: Trent
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Unbearable, intolerable, insufferable, unendurable
ANT:Endurable, comfortable, to_be_borne
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Definition
adj. not supportable or able to be endured: unbearable: insufferable: (Spens.) irresistible.—n. Insupport′ableness.—adv. Insupport′ably.
Typist: Martha
Examples
- His mother left the room; then, moved by insupportable regret, I just murmured the words Dr. Bretton. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- What I have endured, and do endure here, is insupportable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- At such an assembly as this it would be insupportable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Coquine de cuisinière, fille insupportable! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Joe, you're insupportable, here broke in Mr. Moore. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I cannot call him Josiah, for the name is insupportable to me. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- All his relations were insupportable to her, and she kept them at arm's length. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- There are women of a stupidity and brutality that is insupportable. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- In a more advanced state, they might be really oppressive and insupportable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- The utter loneliness of his life was insupportable to think about. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- That she should hope I would go, that she should think it possible I could go, was insupportable. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Insupportable--unnatural--out of the question! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass many evenings in this manner--in such society; and indeed I am quite of your opinion. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She first shrugged her shoulders at him, and then she said a bitter word or two about his insupportable tardiness. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Life, my dear Pickwick, has become insupportable to me. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- In the monotony of my life, and in my constant apprehension of the re-opening of the school, it was such an insupportable affliction! Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Let _our_ first effusions be less insupportable than those of the generality of travellers. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- A stranger would have found them insupportable, and even to me they were so oppressive that I hesitated, half inclined to go back. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Typist: Martha