UNENDURABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unendurable mean? 

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

1. incapable of being tolerated or endured

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNENDURABLE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incapable of being tolerated or endured

Synonyms:

intolerable; unbearable; unendurable

Context example:

an intolerable degree of sentimentality

Similar:

bitter (very difficult to accept or bear)

insufferable; unsufferable (too extreme to bear)

impossible; unacceptable ((used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable)

insufferable (unbearably arrogant or conceited)

unsupportable (not able to be supported or defended)

Also:

impermissible (not permitted)

 Context examples 

The sultry heat had become unendurable.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

All the sensitive feelings it wounded so cruelly, all the shame and misery it kept alive within my breast, became more poignant as I thought of this; and I determined that the life was unendurable.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

There would be recesses in my mind which would be only mine, to which he never came, and sentiments growing there fresh and sheltered which his austerity could never blight, nor his measured warrior-march trample down: but as his wife—at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked—forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital—this would be unendurable.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Thomas Mugridge is becoming unendurable.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)