unbearable

/ʌn'beərəbl/

Thân thiện

The sentimentality in the old movie was unbearable.

Definition

Adjective: - Too unpleasant, painful, or annoying to endure; intolerable: Describes something so extreme or severe that one cannot tolerate or withstand it.

Usage

• Used to describe situations, feelings, sensations, or behaviors that are excessively difficult or unpleasant to experience.
• Often follows linking verbs like , , , or .
• Can be modified by adverbs like , , or .

Examples

• The heat in the desert was unbearable.
• She found the constant noise from the construction site unbearable.
• His arrogance became unbearable after his promotion.
• The pain in her leg was unbearable, so she went to the hospital.

Advanced Usage

• "to find something unbearable": To experience something as intolerable.
  • I find his negativity unbearable.
• "to make life unbearable for someone": To behave in a way that causes someone extreme distress.
  • The bullies made his school life unbearable.

Variants and Related Words

• Unbearably (adverb): In an intolerable manner.
  • The wait was unbearably long.
• Bearable (adjective): Able to be endured.
  • The pain was severe but bearable.

Synonyms

• Intolerable: Too bad or harsh to be accepted or endured.
• Insufferable: Too extreme to bear; intolerable (often used for people's behavior).
• Unendurable: Impossible to endure.

Antonyms

• Bearable: Able to be endured.
• Tolerable: Able to be tolerated; acceptable.

Idioms and Phrases

• The heat was unbearable: A common phrase used literally for weather or figuratively for intense pressure.
  • The pressure to succeed was unbearable.
• Unbearable lightness: A literary allusion (from the novel ) referring to a paradoxical, distressing feeling of freedom or insignificance.
  • He pondered the unbearable lightness of his existence.

Học thuật

Adjective

1. incapable of being put up with
   • an intolerable degree of sentimentality

Từ đồng nghĩa

• intolerable
• unendurable