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[ adjective ] impossible to bear

Synonyms

unendurable

Examples

"unbearable pain" "unendurable agony"

Used in print

(Marvin Schiller, "The Sheep's in the Meadow,"...)

The weeks went_by , and the longer our separation grew , the more unbounded and almost unbearable my fantasies became .

(John Hazard Wildman, "Take It Off," The Arizona...)

Also , when she had bitten_off half of the small radish , she found the suspense unbearable ; and she would snatch the finger held half of the radish out to where she could inspect it .

Related terms

intolerable

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