unendurableadj.n.
/ˌʌnᵻnˈdjʊərəbl/, /ˌʌnᵻnˈdʒʊərəbl/, /ˌʌnɛnˈdjʊərəbl/, /ˌʌnɛnˈdʒʊərəbl/, /ˌʌnᵻnˈdjɔːrəbl/, /ˌʌnᵻnˈdʒɔːrəbl/, /ˌʌnɛnˈdjɔːrəbl/, /ˌʌnɛnˈdʒɔːrəbl/, U.S. /ˌənᵻnˈd(j)ʊrəb(ə)l/, /ˌənɛnˈd(j)ʊrəb(ə)l/ 1. Incapable of enduring; †impatient of.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > excitement > excitability of temperament > impatience > [adjective] > impatient of something
impatienta1535
incompatible1613
unendurable1630
incapable1643
the world > matter > constitution of matter > weakness > [adjective]
tender?c1225
feeble1340
infirmc1374
slight1393
weakc1400
sperec1440
silly1587
unsound1590
immaterial1609
paper1615
unsubstantiala1617
reedy1628
slighty1662
insufficient1700
flimsy1702
bandbox1727
unconfirmed1752
insubstantial1767
gossamery1790
thread-paper1803
gossamer1806
slimsy1845
unendurable1879
bandboxy1891
1630 tr. G. Botero Relations Famous Kingdomes World (rev. ed.) 79 In battell they are fearlesse,..and in service unindurable of temporizing.
1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator (new ed.) I. 314 If it be soft, broken granite..will prove a useless because an unendurable surface.
2.
a. That cannot be endured; insufferable.
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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
1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. xii. 314 No eye could penetrate That unendurable excess of light.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 303 The sensation most unendurable..is a pain between the eyes and over the forehead.
1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. xi. 352 This ceaseless sense of unendurable..reproach.
b. n. An insufferable person.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > cause of mental pain or suffering > quality of being unendurable or intolerable > [noun] > that which is unendurable > person
unendurable1826
1826 F. Reynolds Life & Times II. 84 That my friend Andrews may not be considered as one of these unendurables, I will yet add another short anecdote of him.
Derivatives
unenˌduraˈbility n.
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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
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia I. v. viii. 632 Some excessive pressure of that lisping snuffling unendurability.
1862 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia III. xii. xi. 330 Such injustices and unendurabilities.
Draft additions 1993
unenˈdurableness 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
1894 ‘M. Twain’ in St. Nicholas Feb. 351/2 We..was thirsty clean to unendurableness.
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