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unbearable

adjectivecommon in dialogue

So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.

adjective

  1. 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.

Etymology

From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.

Forms

comparative
more unbearable
superlative
most unbearable
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