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Meanings of intolerable in English

Portuguese
insuportável
Catalan
insuportable
Spanish
intolerable

Incapable of being put up with.

Related terms
insuportável
Synonyms
Examples for "unbearable"
Examples for "unbearable"
1
In winter time the climate is equable; in summer it is unbearable.
With the British Army in The Holy Land
2
Thank God for this; life in the trenches would otherwise be unbearable.
The Fifth Battalion Highland Light Infantry in the War 1914-1918
3
I find it unbearable to see the love yet know the fate.
The Guardian
4
For the thought of entering the house in Arlington Street was unbearable.
Richard Carvel — Volume 05
5
Under the best of circumstances, the windowless room would have been unbearable.
Iron lace
1
The heaving bosom could bear silence no longer; the insult was unendurable.
The War Trail: The Hunt of the Wild Horse
2
But thinking that he's being tortured specifically to incapacitate me is unendurable.
Mockingjay
3
The furious storm made the horror of the situation tenfold more unendurable.
A Lover in Homespun / And Other Stories
4
The more she thought of it the more unendurable her position appeared.
A Young Girl's Wooing
5
But this is the same tyranny that you found unendurable in Spottsylvania.
The Reign of Law; a tale of the Kentucky hemp fields
1
But the heat and the suffocation in this atmosphere became almost insupportable.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
2
No; it was not the weather that made Rockhold insupportable to me.
For Woman's Love
3
To me the most insupportable part of it will be the singers.
The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01
4
The long books about the black poverty of cities became quite insupportable.
Alarms and Discursions
5
The stillness was insupportable, and it was his duty to break it.
Joseph II. and His Court: An Historical Novel
Usage of intolerable in English
1
Direct state intervention, he said, was sometimes necessary to correct intolerable inequalities.
The Guardian
2
The one evil in all is the intolerable length of the debates.
Practical Essays
3
The air was dusky; the cold, in spite of the fire, intolerable.
A Mountain Woman
4
If the situation looked bleak before the vote, now it looks intolerable.
The Guardian
5
But doing so without a clear idea of their purpose was intolerable.
Ilse Witch
6
As the number of protesters have grown, this situation has become intolerable.
The Guardian
7
For Andrei, this uncertainty combined with the situation at home was intolerable.
The tiger: a true story of vengeance and survival
8
It was intolerable that it be prolonged an hour longer than necessary.
The Irish Times
9
Saakashvili, however, insists he was forced to act after intolerable Russian provocation.
The Guardian
10
The UK has been right to focus on reducing an intolerable deficit.
Reuters
11
The next day came; intolerable was the thirst we endured by noon.
A Voyage round the World / A book for boys
12
It was intolerable; and Doggie remained justly indignant the whole day long.
The Literary World Seventh Reader
13
The culprit passed a sleepless night in the intolerable agony of lear.
Rattlin the Reefer
14
She shrank a little; for there was something intolerable in his words.
The Top of the World
15
Tears of distress came to her eyes; the situation was becoming intolerable.
Nedra
16
He is the most intolerable scoundrel on the face of the earth.
Bleak House
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Intolerable through the time
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United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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