unbearableadj.
/(ˌ)ʌnˈbɛːrəbl/, U.S. /ˌənˈbɛrəb(ə)l/ Unendurable, intolerable.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [adjective]
untholelyc1225
untholinga1300
unsufferablea1325
untolerablea1382
importable1402
untholefula1425
unbearablec1449
unportablea1500
impassible1508
intolerablea1513
insupportable1530
insufferable1533
incomportable1574
impatient1590
intollerous1594
unsuffered1598
supportless1602
unsupportable1602
indurable1607
impatible1623
unbrookable1633
unsustainable1662
unendurable1801
impassive1828
punishing1833
thick1884
the world > health and disease > ill health > pain > types of pain > [adjective] > relating to agony or torment > causing agony or torment
sharpc1000
grievousc1290
smartc1300
fellc1330
unsufferablea1340
keena1375
poignantc1390
rending?c1400
furiousc1405
stoutc1425
unbearablec1449
agonizing1570
tormenting1575
cruciable1578
raging1590
tormentuous1597
pungent1598
racking1598
acute1615
wrenching1618
excruciating1664
grinding1681
excruciate1773
discruciating1788
unendurable1801
of bare sufferance1823
perialgic1893
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 507 This man hath a bodili sijknes..bi which he schal lyue in huge vnberable peine or be deed.
1601 Sir W. Brown in A. Collins Lett. & Mem. State (1746) II. 228 The hurt Men..make such a noysom Smell in the Towne, that is allmost vnberable.
1690 C. Ness Compl. Hist. & Myst. Old & New Test. I. 175 The first covenant..hath impossible as well as unbearable conditions.
1791–3 in Spirit Public Jrnls. (1799) I. 159 The consumption of provisions in such an army as this, may be objected to as unbearable.
1812 J. J. Henry Accurate Acct. Campaign against Quebec 212 He was almost unbearable to many men.
1875 C. L. Kenney Mem. M. W. Balfe 60 This state of mind was heightened to an almost unbearable strain of suspense.
Derivatives
unˈbearableness n.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [noun]
intolerableness1579
insupportablenessa1586
insufferableness1592
intolerability1598
unsufferableness1611
unsupportableness1672
importableness1677
unbearableness1730
unendurability1858
unendurableness1894
1730 N. Bailey et al. Dictionarium Britannicum at Insupportableness Unbearableness.
1867 R. Broughton Cometh up as Flower I. vi. 76 The bearableness or unbearableness of the various burdens laid upon the shoulders of poor humanity.
1873 Daily News 26 Aug. 2/2 An ordinary mortal would have found the beach in the middle of the day hot to unbearableness.
unˈbearably adv.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [adverb]
unsufferablec1420
importably?c1425
unsufferablyc1440
intolerably1482
intolerable?1593
insufferably1625
unsupportably1664
insupportably1671
unbearably1809
unendurably1832
1809 B. H. Malkin tr. A. R. Le Sage Adventures Gil Blas III. vii. i. 19 You are become so unbearably hateful to her.
1862 H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon II. 255 Since her dog's death she had been more unbearably silly..than ever.
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