Unbearable
[ʌn'beərəb(ə)l] or [ʌn'bɛrəbl]
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Intolerable, insufferable, unendurable, insupportable, that cannot be borne or endured.
Inputed by Clara
Definition
adj. intolerable.—n. Unbear′ableness.—adv. Unbear′ably.
Typist: Malcolm
Examples
- I don't pretend to know what that unbearable anxiety may have been. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Some unbearable anxiety in connexion with the missing Diamond, has, I believe, driven the poor creature to her own destruction. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Miss Clapp, grown quite a young woman now, is declared by the soured old lady to be an unbearable and impudent little minx. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He understood that his own eyes must be unbearable, and turning away, rested his elbows on the mantel-shelf and covered his face. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I was almost sorry we had hired this man, his name was so unbearable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His head hurt very much and his arm was stiffening so that the pain of moving it was almost unbearable. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- The thought of such an enormous loss was unbearable, and he did not rest until he had invented and put into use an entirely new grinding-machine, which was called the three-high rolls. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Rosamond's thought was, that he was getting more and more unbearable--not that there was any new special reason for this peremptoriness. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But round her heart was an isolation unbearable, through which nothing would penetrate. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was unbearable, shameful. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- My girls' singing, after that little odious governess's, I know is unbearable, the candid Rector's wife owned to herself. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Typist: Malcolm