unbearable

[uhn-bair-uh-buhl]

adjective

1. not bearable; unendurable; intolerable.

unbearable

/ ʌnˈbɛərəbəl /

adjective

1. not able to be borne or endured

Other Word Forms

• unbearableness noun
• unbearably adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of unbearable¹

late Middle English word dating back to 1400–50; un- ¹, bearable

Example Sentences

Other times, they get worse until they are unbearable.

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Those countries legalized euthanasia for patients terminally ill with, say, cancer, at the turn of the 21st century—then expanded it to include those who say their psychiatric conditions are incurable and unbearable.

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It also allows for assisted dying if treatment offers no reasonable prospect of recovery or improvement in the patient's condition, but not to end unbearable suffering from mental illness.

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The 1999 pilot wasn’t picked up, and while Mr. Apatow found “these moments of disappointment almost completely unbearable . . . on some other sick level it was the fuel that kept me working hard.”

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Atkinson began his professional career against the backdrop of the unbearable tragedy of his mother dying in a road traffic accident.

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