insupportable

[US]/ɪnsə'pɔːtəb(ə)l/
[UK]/ˌɪnsə'pɔrtəbl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. intolerable; unbearable

Example Sentences

he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion.

Real-world Examples

Her position in her parents' house had become insupportable.

Source: The Night Before (Part 2)

The utter loneliness of his life was insupportable to think about.

Source: The South and the North (Part 2)

In a more advanced state, they might be really oppressive and insupportable.

Source: The Wealth of Nations (Part Four)

I cannot call him Josiah, for the name is insupportable to me.

Source: Difficult Times (Part 1)

So life in St. Petersburg became insupportable to Paklin and he longed to remove to Moscow.

Source: The Virgin Land (Part 2)

Meanwhile, councils went on in the kitchen at home, fraught with almost insupportable aggravation to my exasperated spirit.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

Miss Bingley: You are thinking how insupportable it would be to spend many evenings in such tedious company.

Source: Pride and Prejudice 1995

Sometimes it became more audible, doubtless as the sufferings of the person who uttered the groans became more acute and insupportable.

Source: Monk (Part 2)

A stranger would have found them insupportable, and even to me they were so oppressive that I hesitated, half inclined to go back.

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

This state of matters became rapidly insupportable; and Denis, to put an end to it, remarked politely that the wind had gone down.

Source: The New Arabian Nights (Part Two)

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