unbearable
adjEtymology From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.
1
So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
- The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:
- Synonyms
- insufferable, unsupportable
- Derived terms
- unbearableness, unbearably