unendurable

/'ʌnin'fɔ:səbl/

Thân thiện

The movie's unendurable sentimentality made him leave the theater.

Definition

1. 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.

Học thuật

Adjective

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

Từ đồng nghĩa

• intolerable
• unbearable