unendurable
/ʌnɪnˈdjʊərəb(ə)l
/ /ʌnɛnˈdjʊərəb(ə)l / /ʌnɪnˈdʒɔːrəb(ə)l / /ʌnɛnˈdʒɔːrəb(ə)l /adjective
Not able to be tolerated or endured: cries of unendurable suffering...
- Let his suffering be remembered as an example to us all on how to endure personal struggles we may think to be unendurable.
- Let's also retire the standard politician's lament that we are placing an unendurable debt burden ‘on our children and our children's children.’
- And it represented the sense among so many military families that their sacrifices - even the unendurable loss of a beloved family member - were not and are not in vain.
Synonyms
intolerable, unbearable, unacceptable, insufferable, insupportable, not to be borne, more than flesh and blood can stand;
oppressive, overwhelming, overpowering, impossible
informal too much
Derivatives
unendurably
/ adverb ...- She tried frantically and futilely to bite it, tormented unendurably, because it hadn't bothered to kill him first.