单词 | unendurable |
释义 | unendurable (once / 3123 pages) adj When you can't tolerate something, it's unendurable. The vintage camper your parents bought might smell so terrible that it's unendurable. Use the adjective unendurable to describe situations that are truly impossible to bear, like the unendurable pain of losing a beloved friend. You can also use the word to emphasize the negative qualities of something: "This math class is unendurable — I'm transferring to modern dance." When you can endure something, you can stand it, even if it's hard. Endure comes from the Latin indurare, "make hard" or "harden the heart against." WORD FAMILYunendurable: unendurably+/endurable: endurably, unendurable/endurance: endurances/endure: endurable, endurance, endured, endures, enduring/enduring: enduringly, enduringness USAGE EXAMPLESIts adamantine perfection is the perfectly unstable embodiment of a moment of unendurable consciousness—of an ideal that was still awaiting its transformative action. The New Yorker(Dec 19, 2016) Since Nov. 8, it had become almost unendurable. New York Times(Nov 22, 2016) In the crucible of cancer treatment, the bonding of patients with physicians often makes the unendurable endurable. New York Times(Nov 03, 2016) adj incapable of being put up with Syn|Ant intolerable, unbearable impermissible not permitted bittervery difficult to accept or bear impossible, insufferable, unacceptable, unsufferableused of persons or their behavior unsupportablenot able to be supported or defended tolerable capable of being borne or endured allowable, permissiblethat may be permitted especially as according to rule bearable, endurable, sufferable, supportablecapable of being borne though unpleasant resistant, tolerantable to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress |
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