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insupportable|ɪnsəˈpɔətəb(ə)l|
[a. F. insupportable (14–15th c.), or ad. eccl.L. insupportābil-is (Hilary), f. in- (in-3) + supportāre to carry, support: see supportable.]
1. That cannot be supported, endured, or borne; insufferable; unbearable.
1530Palsgr. 316/2 Insupportable, nat able to be sustayned, insupportable. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxxvi. 160 b, Constrained to insupportable tributes. 1600Holland Livy xl. xlv. 1088 A suddaine and insuportable storme and tempest. 1661Cowley Ess., Cromwell (1684) 65 The insupportable Insolence of an ignorant Mountebank. 1791Mrs. Radcliffe Rom. Forest ix, Her distress became insupportable. 1859Geo. Eliot A. Bede xvii, I..find them concur in the experience that great men are over-estimated and small men are insupportable.
b. That cannot be supported or sustained by grounds or reasons; unjustifiable, indefensible.
1649Sir E. Nicholas in N. Papers (Camden) 144 His destruccion wilbe soe much y⊇ more insupportable and inexcusable. 1663Gerbier Counsel 47 When a Plummer sets pounds of Candles used about his Sauder, that trick prove as insupportable as that of one, who..set in his Bill to have paid a hundred pound for Mustard.
†2. That cannot be sustained; irresistible.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. vii. 11 He gan advaunce With huge force and insupportable mayne. 1693Mem. Ct. Teckely ii. 151 Ordinarily the Turks, who are insupportable with good Fortune, have little courage under bad. 1697Potter Antiq. Greece iii. i. (1715) 3 They were the most pugnacious and insupportable of Mankind. |