unendurable
/'ʌnin'fɔ:səbl/
Definition
- Adjective:
- Impossible to bear or tolerate: Describes something so unpleasant, painful, or extreme that it cannot be endured or put up with.
Usage
- The adjective "unendurable" is used to describe a situation, condition, feeling, or experience that is too severe to withstand. It emphasizes an extreme level of difficulty or suffering.
- It is a formal and strong word, often used in written contexts like literature, reports, or serious descriptions.
Examples
- Adjective:
- The pain from his injury was unendurable.
- After days without water in the desert, the thirst became unendurable.
- She found the constant noise from the construction site unendurable.
Advanced Usage
- "The unendurable...": Used with "the" to refer abstractly to a state or condition that is intolerable.
- They finally escaped the unendurable heat of the attic.
Variants and Related Words
- Unendurably (adverb): In a manner that cannot be endured.
- The summer was unendurably hot.
- Endurable (adjective): Able to be endured or tolerated; bearable. (This is the direct opposite).
- Endure (verb): To suffer patiently; to last.
Synonyms
- Intolerable: Too bad or harsh to be endured.
- Insufferable: Too extreme to bear; unbearably arrogant or annoying.
- Unbearable: Not able to be endured or tolerated.
- Excruciating: Intensely painful; agonizing.
Antonyms
- Bearable: Able to be endured.
- Tolerable: Able to be tolerated; acceptable.
- Endurable: Able to be endured.
Idioms and Phrases
- Beyond endurance: A phrase meaning the same as "unendurable"; too severe to be borne.
- The wait was beyond endurance.
Adjective
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incapable of being put up with
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an intolerable degree of sentimentality
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