[ UK /ʌnbˈe‍əɹəbə‍l/ ]
[ US /ənˈbɛɹəbəɫ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. incapable of being tolerated or endured
    an intolerable degree of sentimentality
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How To Use unbearable In A Sentence

  • The pain is as unbearable as it was a year ago. Times, Sunday Times
  • Then you start to tuck into your breakfast but have to give in after two or three mouthfuls because the pain of chewing and then swallowing the food becomes unbearable.
  • He falls into a stupor, into utter oblivion of the world about him, becomes in turn excited and confused, his senses begin to functionate in a fallacious manner, and he thus succeeds in shutting out from consciousness, for the time being at least, the entire unbearable situation. Studies in Forensic Psychiatry
  • In the pictures his pride and pleasure are almost unbearable to look at.
  • During the first twenty minutes or so, I wasn't sure I would make it through the entire movie -- it was, I thought, similar in style to a kind of movie I find unbearable: a style based on long handheld shots, a soundtrack that contains little or no music and lots of environmental sounds characters breathing, eating, walking, and a general attitude that seems to fetishize "artlessness", though offers little to replace the art it so disdains. 4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days
  • The uncertainty is unbearable!
  • It was impossible to hear anything over the deafening crashing of the desks or the unbearable exploding of the hallways.
  • A musty aroma of hunter's stew filled her nostrils, and the sour smell of soggy, rotten straw was almost unbearable all of a sudden.
  • They claim attacks - often referred to as "beastings" - were unbearable. Undefined
  • The shrill whine and unbearable thunder of falling bombs dug in under my skin and stayed there.
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