INSUPPORTABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does insupportable mean? 

• INSUPPORTABLE (adjective)
  The adjective INSUPPORTABLE has 1 sense:

1. incapable of being justified or explained

  Familiarity information: INSUPPORTABLE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INSUPPORTABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of being justified or explained

Synonyms:

indefensible; insupportable; unjustifiable; unwarrantable; unwarranted

Similar:

inexcusable (without excuse or justification)

 Context examples 

That she should hope I would go, that she should think it possible I could go, was insupportable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You are considering how insupportable it would be to pass many evenings in this manner—in such society; and indeed I am quite of your opinion.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The results of what you have done become in time to you utterly insupportable; you take measures to obtain relief: unusual measures, but neither unlawful nor culpable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My attention was fixed upon every object the most insupportable to the delicacy of the human feelings.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The treasurer was of the same opinion: he showed to what straits his majesty’s revenue was reduced, by the charge of maintaining you, which would soon grow insupportable; that the secretary’s expedient of putting out your eyes, was so far from being a remedy against this evil, that it would probably increase it, as is manifest from the common practice of blinding some kind of fowls, after which they fed the faster, and grew sooner fat; that his sacred majesty and the council, who are your judges, were, in their own consciences, fully convinced of your guilt, which was a sufficient argument to condemn you to death, without the formal proofs required by the strict letter of the law.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

As soon as divine service was over, the Thorpes and Allens eagerly joined each other; and after staying long enough in the pump-room to discover that the crowd was insupportable, and that there was not a genteel face to be seen, which everybody discovers every Sunday throughout the season, they hastened away to the Crescent, to breathe the fresh air of better company.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

At such an assembly as this it would be insupportable.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

In the monotony of my life, and in my constant apprehension of the re-opening of the school, it was such an insupportable affliction!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

No; from that moment I declared everlasting war against the species, and more than all, against him who had formed me and sent me forth to this insupportable misery.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I dwell the longer upon this subject from the desire I have to make the society of an English Yahoo by any means not insupportable; and therefore I here entreat those who have any tincture of this absurd vice, that they will not presume to come in my sight.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)