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insupportable(dictionary)

insupportable (iou)



insupportable adjective. M16.
[Old & mod. French, formed as IN-3 + SUPPORT verb: see -ABLE.]
Unable to be endured or borne; insufferable; unbearable. M16.
G. K. Chesterton He..became that elegant and rather insupportable person whom Gregory had first encountered. M. Meyer The combination of overwork, poverty and literary failure became almost insupportable.
Unable to be resisted; irresistible. L16-L17.
Unable to be supported or sustained by reasons; unjustifiable, indefensible. M17.
M. Gordon He was always making large insupportable statements like, 'London was nothing after the eighteenth century.'
insupportableness noun L16.
insupportably adverb L17.