Usually means: Too intense to be tolerated.
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We found 24 dictionaries that define the word unbearable:

General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. unbearable: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. unbearable: Merriam-Webster
  3. unbearable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. unbearable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. unbearable: Collins English Dictionary
  6. unbearable: Vocabulary.com
  7. Unbearable, unbearable: Wordnik
  8. unbearable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. unbearable: Wiktionary
  10. unbearable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. unbearable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. unbearable: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. unbearable: Dictionary.com
  14. unbearable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. unbearable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Unbearable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. unbearable: Rhymezone
  18. unbearable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. unbearable: FreeDictionary.org
  20. unbearable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. unbearable: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Unbearable (CSI episode), unbearable: Legal dictionary

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▸ adjective:  So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.

Similar:
intolerable, unendurable, insuperable, oppressive, gut-wrenching, odious, obnoxious, overpainful, heavy, gruelling, more...

Opposite:
bearable, tolerable, endurable, manageable

Types:
unendurable, unsupportable, untenable, unbearably, unendurably, more...

Phrases:
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, unbearable pain, unbearable sadness, unbearable or dismal, more...

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Similar:
intolerable, unendurable, insuperable, oppressive, gut-wrenching, odious, obnoxious, overpainful, heavy, gruelling, more...

Opposite:
bearable, tolerable, endurable, manageable

Types:
unendurable, unsupportable, untenable, unbearably, unendurably, more...

Phrases:
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, unbearable pain, unbearable sadness, unbearable or dismal, unbearable lawlessness, unbearable sound, opposite of unbearable, more...

Colors:
    charcoal,     blood red,     ash gray,     deep purple,     stormy blue, more...



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