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unbearable

unbearable adjective: so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.

Adjective

unbearable (comparative more unbearable, superlative most unbearable)

  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...1945 January and February, A Former Pupil, “Some Memories of Crewe Works—III”, in Railway Magazine, page 14

unbearable meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

unbearable in Hindi

unbearable, intolerable
दूभर dūbhar

unbearable in Tamil

தாங்க முடியாதது, சகிக்க முடியாதது, தாங்க முடியாதவை

unbearable in Marathi

असह्य, असहनीय

unbearable in Urdu

دوبھر, غیرمتحمل, ناگزیر, ناقابل برداشت
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unbearable in Bengali
অসহনীয়, অসহ্য
unbearable in Telugu
భరించలేని bhariñcalēni
unbearable in Malayalam
ദുർവ്വഹ, താങ്ങാനാവാത്ത, കഠോര, അസഹനീയമായ
unbearable in Kannada
ಸಹಿಸಲಾಗದ, ತಡೆಯಲಾಗದ, ತಡೆಯಲಸಾಧ್ಯವಾದ, ತಾಳಲಾರದ
unbearable in Punjabi
ਅਜਰ ajar
unbearable in Gujarati
અસહ્ય, અસહનીય
unbearable in Odia
ଅତିରେକ atireka
unbearable in Nepali
असहनीय
unbearable in Persian
غِیرِ قابِل تَحَمُّل

Examples of unbearable in a sentence

  • The heat from her family after her DUI arrest was unbearable.
  • Distancing himself from emotional entanglements or investment, which could only lead to unbearable heartbreak.
  • As you can imagine, the stench was unbearable and many gong scourers died from suffocation.

All 20 example sentences with unbearable

Synonyms of unbearable

Forms of unbearable

comparativemore unbearable
superlativemost unbearable

Origin of unbearable

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

Words formed from unbearable

Questions about unbearable

What does unbearable mean?
Unbearable means so unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.
What is unbearable in Hindi?
Unbearable in Hindi is दूभर (dūbhar). See Unbearable meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is unbearable?
Unbearable is an adjective.

Words near unbearable in the dictionary

  1. unbeaded
  2. unbeaked
  3. unbeamed
  4. unbear
  5. unbearability
  6. unbearable
  7. unbearableness
  8. unbearably
  9. unbeard
  10. unbearded
  11. unbearding

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unbearable (page history and authors); दूभर (Hindi) (page history and authors); unbearable (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unbearable (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unbearable (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unbearable (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unbearable (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); unbearable (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ਅਜਰ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); unbearable (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ଅତିରେକ (Odia) (page history and authors); unbearable (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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