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unbearable

adjective

  1. not able to be held, endured
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Wiktionary

adj

Etymology: From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.

  1. So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.

    The heat of the fire, the steam which arose from the dampening water, the hard slogging at the white-hot metal of the links, and the continual pulling of lengths of chain, were calculated to put a test on the strongest of men, and often on hot summer days they had to be sent home, for the work became unbearable.