unbearable

English

Etymology

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

Adjective

unbearable (comparative more unbearable, superlative most unbearable)

1. So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
   • 1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14:

     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.

Synonyms

• insufferable
• unsupportable

Translations

so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable

• Arabic:

  Hijazi Arabic: ما يِنْطاق m (ma yinṭāg), غَثِيث m (ḡaṯīṯ)

• Armenian: անտանելի (hy) (antaneli)
• Azerbaijani: dözülməz
• Bulgarian: нетърпим (bg) (netǎrpim), непоносим (bg) (neponosim)
• Catalan: insuportable
• Czech: nesnesitelný (cs) m
• Danish: uudholdelig
• Dutch: onuitstaanbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: neeltenebla
• Finnish: kestämätön, sietämätön (fi)
• French: invivable (fr), insupportable (fr)
• Georgian: აუტანელი (auṭaneli)
• German: unerträglich (de)
• Greek: ανυπόφορος (el) (anypóforos), αβίωτος (el) (avíotos)

  Ancient: ἀφόρητος (aphórētos), ἄτλατος (átlatos)

• Hungarian: elviselhetetlen (hu), kibírhatatlan (hu)
• Icelandic: óþolandi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: uutholdelig (no), ulevelig, ikke til å holde ut

• Old English: unāberendlīċ
• Persian: غِیرِ قابِل تَحَمُّل
• Polish: nieznośny (pl)
• Portuguese: insuportável (pt)
• Romanian: nesuportabil, insuportabil (ro)
• Russian: невыноси́мый (ru) (nevynosímyj), нестерпи́мый (ru) (nesterpímyj)
• Spanish: insoportable (es), infumable (es) (colloquial)
• Swedish: outhärdlig (sv)
• Telugu: భరించలేని (bhariñcalēni)
• Tocharian B: ekalätte
• Tày: bấu fă̱n
• Ukrainian: нестерпний (nesterpnyj)