unendurable

[US]/ʌnɪn'djʊərəb(ə)l/
[UK]/ˌʌnɪn'dʊrəbl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. intolerable; no se puede soportar; no sostenible.

Example Sentences

cries of unendurable suffering.

gritos de sufrimiento insoportable

Real-world Examples

In an atmosphere of casual anti-semitism the shame of truth was simply unendurable.

En una atmósfera de antisemitismo casual, la vergüenza de la verdad era simplemente insoportable.

Source: BBC Listening January 2015 Collection

It was unendurable. Not even for Tara would she stay here another minute and be insulted.

Era insoportable. Ni siquiera para Tara se quedaría aquí otro minuto y sería insultada.

Source: Gone with the Wind

Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex-prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.

Sobre la cual acusaron a lo que para ella era su prerrogativa sexual más esencial, hicieron sus vidas insoportables.

Source: The Call of the Wild

There lay the cat asleep on the bare gravel of the path, as if beds, rugs, and carpets were unendurable.

Allí yacía el gato dormido sobre la grava desnuda del sendero, como si las camas, las alfombras y las alfombrillas fueran insoportables.

Source: Returning Home

And yet the distance they appear to be imposing on us, through their lack of engagement, feels unendurable and humiliating.

Y sin embargo, la distancia que parecen estar imponiendo sobre nosotros, a través de su falta de compromiso, se siente insoportable y humillante.

Source: Sociology of Social Relations (Video Version)

He hated that officer, every officer—life was unendurable.

Odiaba a ese oficial, a todos los oficiales; la vida era insoportable.

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

Life would be unendurable without quarrels.

La vida sería insoportable sin discusiones.

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

The suspense was hideous and unendurable.

La tensión era horrible e insoportable.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 1)

The frog Philharmonic of the Florida lakes and marshes is unendurable in its sweetness.

La Filarmónica de ranas de los lagos y pantanos de Florida es insoportable en su dulzura.

Source: Cross Stream (Part 1)

The mere presence of human passions is an unwelcome and, at his age, an almost unendurable unpleasantness.

La mera presencia de pasiones humanas es desagradable y, a su edad, casi insoportable.

Source: The Disappearing Horizon

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