What does insupportable mean?
Definitions for insupportable
ˌɪn səˈpɔr tə bəl, -ˈpoʊr-in·sup·port·able
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Princeton's WordNet
indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, unwarrantedadjective
incapable of being justified or explained
Wiktionary
insupportableadjective
Not supportable; incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Insupportableadjective
Intolerable; insufferable; not to be endured.
Etymology: insupportable, French; in and supportable.
A disgrace put upon a man in company is insupportable; it is heightened according to the greatness, and multiplied according to the number of the persons that hear. South.
The baser the enemies are, the more insupportable is the insolence. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.
The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man: we naturally aim at happiness, and cannot bear to have it confined to our present being. Dryd.
To those that dwell under or near the Equator, this Spring would be a most pestilent and insupportable Summer; and as for those countries that are nearer the Poles, a perpetual Spring will not do their business. Richard Bentley, Sermons.
ChatGPT
insupportable
Insupportable refers to something that is unbearable, intolerable, or impossible to endure or tolerate. It can refer to a situation, condition, behavior, or argument that cannot be accepted or withstood due to its extreme, negative, or flawed nature.
Webster Dictionary
Insupportableadjective
incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain
Etymology: [L. insupportabilis: cf. F. insupportable. See In- not, and Support.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Insupportable
in-sup-pōrt′a-bl, adj. not supportable or able to be endured: unbearable: insufferable: (Spens.) irresistible.—n. Insupport′ableness.—adv. Insupport′ably.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of insupportable in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of insupportable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of insupportable in a Sentence
The insupportable labor of doing nothing.
A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.
I wonder how so insupportable a thing as a bookseller was ever permitted to grow up in the Commonwealth. Many of our modern booksellers are but needless excrements, or rather vermin.
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.
Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.
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