unendurable

British  

/ ˌʌnɪnˈdjʊrəbəl /

adjective

1. not able to be undergone or tolerated; insufferable

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Explanation

When you can't tolerate something, it's unendurable. The vintage camper your parents bought might smell so terrible that it's unendurable. Use the adjective unendurable to describe situations that are truly impossible to bear, like the unendurable pain of losing a beloved friend. You can also use the word to emphasize the negative qualities of something: "This math class is unendurable — I'm transferring to modern dance." When you can endure something, you can stand it, even if it's hard. Endure comes from the Latin indurare, "make hard" or "harden the heart against."

Example Sentences

He published five or six books on the subject, with such titles as “The Dictionary of Disagreeable English,” “The Dimwit’s Dictionary” and “Robert Hartwell Fiske’s Dictionary of Unendurable English.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2016

Facing the Unendurable, Families Lay to Rest Two Children, Both 6 NEWTOWN, Conn. — They were so young that their lives were defined by small, fleeting enthusiasms.

From New York Times • Dec. 19, 2012

Unendurable grief of a man, when Death itself gives the stab, and then snatches all availments to solacement away.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman