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insupportable
[in-suh-pawr-tuh-buhl, -pohr-]
adjective
not endurable; unbearable; insufferable.
insupportable pain.
incapable of support or justification, as by evidence or collected facts.
an insupportable accusation.
insupportable
/ ˌɪԲəˈɔːəə /
adjective
incapable of being endured; intolerable; insufferable
incapable of being supported or justified; indefensible
Other Word Forms
- insupportableness noun
- insupportability noun
- insupportably adverb
- ˌԲܱˈǰٲԱ noun
- ˌԲܱˈǰٲ adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of insupportable1
Example Sentences
But given how the Biden case unfolded, it would have been insupportable to have a special counsel for one and not for the other.
The long-running myth that the rebel generals had no connection to racism became insupportable when contemporary white supremacists swaddled themselves in Confederate symbols.
Most people would have termed her a splendid woman of her age: and so she was, no doubt, physically speaking; but then there was an expression of almost insupportable haughtiness in her bearing and countenance.
We are as a society — and by "we" I mean virtually all of us on the planet — brought up to believe howling absurdities, ridiculous impossibilities, and insupportable malarkey from our very first moments on Earth.
“That position is insupportable as a matter of precedent and common sense,” he wrote.
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