unbearable

The word “unbearable” has 4 syllables: un-bear-a-ble

It's pronounced as /ʌnˈbɛərəbəl/


What is synonym and antonym for unbearable?

In the thesaurus, “unbearable” has 55 synonyms and 15 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for unbearable along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for unbearable

  • a bit much
  • acute
  • appalling
  • comfortless
  • crushing
  • disgusting
  • distasteful
  • dreadful
  • enough
  • excruciating
  • extreme
  • grewsome
  • gruesome
  • hard
  • harrowing
  • harsh
  • heavy-handed
  • heinous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • horrid
  • horrifying
  • inadmissible
  • insufferable
  • insupportable
  • intense
  • intolerable
  • last straw
  • loathsome
  • nauseating
  • nightmarish
  • noxious
  • obnoxious
  • odious
  • offensive
  • oppressive
  • overwhelming
  • painful
  • piercing
  • repugnant
  • repulsive
  • revolting
  • shocking
  • sickening
  • terrible
  • tormenting
  • torturous
  • unacceptable
  • uncomfortable
  • unendurable
  • unspeakable
  • unsupportable
  • unsurpassable
  • vile
  • wretched

Antonyms for unbearable

Meanings of unbearable

  • adjective
    1. So unpleasant or painful as to be unendurable.

Example Sentences

  • The heat during the summer months became unbearable without air conditioning.
  • The pain in her knee was becoming unbearable as she struggled to walk.
  • The tension in the room was unbearable as they awaited the judge's decision.
  • He found the thought of losing his job unbearable after years of dedication to the company.
  • The smell from the garbage bin was so unbearable that they had to move it outside immediately.

On this page you'll find 70 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to unbearable, such as: a bit much, acceptable, acute, adequate, admissible, allowable, appalling.

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Related Words

taboo

  • abomination
  • anathema
  • atrociousness
  • atrocity
  • bad
  • badness
  • balefulness
  • ban
  • banned
  • barred
  • beyond the pale
  • blocked
  • cancer
  • canker
  • caveat
  • commandment
  • constraint
  • corruption
  • darkness
  • debauchery
  • decay
  • decree
  • degeneracy
  • denial
  • depravedness
  • depravity
  • deterrent
  • devilishness
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diabolism
  • dictate
  • disallowance
  • disallowed
  • disapproval
  • disapproved
  • discouraged
  • discouragement
  • edict
  • embargo
  • enormity
  • evil
  • evildoing
  • evilness
  • excluded
  • fiendishness
  • forbiddance
  • forbidden
  • frowned on
  • heinousness
  • hindered
  • ill
  • illegal
  • illegitimate
  • illicit
  • immorality
  • impeded
  • impermissible
  • improper
  • inappropriate
  • indecency
  • ineffable
  • inhibition
  • iniquitousness
  • iniquity
  • injunction
  • interdict
  • interdicted
  • interdiction
  • intolerable
  • law
  • limitation
  • malefaction
  • mandate
  • negation
  • no-no
  • objection
  • objectionable
  • obstructed
  • off-limits
  • out of bounds
  • outlawed
  • perversion
  • pervertedness
  • precluded
  • prevented
  • prevention
  • prohibited
  • prohibition
  • proscribed
  • proscription
  • protest
  • refusal
  • refused
  • regulation
  • rejected
  • rejection
  • religious convention
  • repressed
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  • reservation
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  • restraint
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  • revoked
  • rot
  • ruled out
  • sanction
  • satanism
  • scurrility
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  • shut out
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • social convention
  • squalor
  • stopped
  • stricture
  • superstition
  • suppressed
  • suppression
  • tabu
  • thou-shalt-not
  • unacceptable
  • unauthorized
  • unbearable
  • unendurable
  • unlawful
  • unlicensed
  • unmentionable
  • unsanctioned
  • unseemly
  • unsuitable
  • unthinkable
  • verboten
  • veto
  • vetoed
  • vileness
  • villainy
  • warning
  • wickedness
  • wrong

lavish

  • Babylonian
  • Lucullan
  • Lucullian
  • a bit much
  • abounding
  • abundant
  • adequate
  • ample
  • august
  • awesome
  • awful
  • baronial
  • baroque
  • be generous
  • be wasteful
  • beautiful
  • blow
  • bombard
  • boundless
  • bounteous
  • bountiful
  • comfortable
  • complete
  • consume
  • copious
  • costly
  • cozy
  • dear
  • deluge
  • deluxe
  • deplete
  • devilish
  • disburse
  • dissipate
  • effusive
  • endless
  • enough
  • exaggerated
  • excessive
  • exhaust
  • exorbitant
  • expend
  • expensive
  • extravagant
  • extreme
  • exuberant
  • fancy
  • fat
  • fecund
  • fertile
  • fiddle away
  • first-class
  • flood
  • free
  • fritter
  • galore
  • generous
  • give
  • go through
  • gorgeous
  • grand
  • grandiose
  • gush
  • gushing
  • hail
  • heap
  • heroic
  • heroical
  • homelike
  • homey
  • homy
  • immeasurable
  • immoderate
  • imposing
  • impoverish
  • impressive
  • improper
  • improvident
  • inappropriate
  • indulge
  • infinite
  • inordinate
  • insane
  • intemperate
  • intolerable
  • inundate
  • kingly
  • lay out
  • liberal
  • limitless
  • lose
  • lush
  • luxe
  • luxuriant
  • luxurious
  • luxury
  • magnificent
  • majestic
  • make ducks and drakes of
  • misspend
  • monumental
  • munificent
  • noble
  • openhanded
  • opulent
  • ostentatious
  • over the top
  • overdue
  • overextravagant
  • overflow
  • overindulge
  • overmuch
  • overspend
  • overweening
  • overwhelm
  • palace
  • palatial
  • play ducks and drakes with
  • plenteous
  • plentiful
  • plethoric
  • plush
  • plushy
  • posh
  • pour
  • precious
  • premium
  • pretentious
  • prodigal
  • profligate
  • profuse
  • profusive
  • prolific
  • proud
  • rain
  • redundant
  • regal
  • rich
  • riotous
  • ritzy
  • royal
  • run through
  • scatter
  • shoot
  • shower
  • showy
  • silken
  • snug
  • spend
  • spend money like water
  • splendid
  • splurge
  • squander
  • stately
  • steep
  • stiff
  • stream
  • sufficient
  • sumptuous
  • swamp
  • swanky
  • thick
  • thriftless
  • throw away
  • thrust upon
  • towering
  • unbearable
  • unconscionable
  • undue
  • unjustifiable
  • unmerciful
  • unreasonable
  • unrestrained
  • unseemly
  • unsparing
  • unstinging
  • unstinting
  • unwarranted
  • waste
  • wasteful
  • wild

painful

  • aching
  • achy
  • acute
  • afflicting
  • afflictive
  • agonizing
  • appalling
  • arduous
  • awful
  • bad
  • biting
  • bitter
  • bleeding
  • burning
  • caustic
  • chafing
  • cramping
  • cruel
  • damaging
  • deleterious
  • detrimental
  • difficult
  • dire
  • disagreeable
  • distasteful
  • distressing
  • dreadful
  • enflamed
  • excruciating
  • extreme
  • extremely bad
  • festering
  • galling
  • ghastly
  • grievous
  • hard
  • harmful
  • harrowing
  • harsh
  • heart-wrenching
  • heartrending
  • horrible
  • hurtful
  • hurting
  • inflamed
  • injurious
  • insufferable
  • insupportable
  • intense
  • intolerable
  • irritated
  • itching
  • laborious
  • miserable
  • nagging
  • nasty
  • noxious
  • pernicious
  • piercing
  • pinching
  • pricking
  • prickling
  • raw
  • rotten
  • saddening
  • sensitive
  • severe
  • sharp
  • smarting
  • sore
  • stinging
  • swollen
  • tedious
  • tender
  • terrible
  • threatening
  • throbbing
  • tormenting
  • torturous
  • troublesome
  • trying
  • unacceptable
  • unbearable
  • uncomfortable
  • unendurable
  • unpleasant
  • unsupportable
  • vexatious
  • vile
  • wounding
  • wretched

immoderate

debasing

  • X-rated
  • abasement
  • abashing
  • abasing
  • abominable
  • abuse
  • adult
  • affronting
  • aspersive
  • atrocious
  • awkward
  • backbiting
  • bad name
  • bad odor
  • bad-mouthing
  • barbaric
  • baseness
  • bastardizing
  • bawdy
  • beastly
  • bedroom
  • befouling
  • begriming
  • belittling
  • beneath one
  • black eye
  • blemish
  • blemishing
  • blot
  • blur
  • brand
  • brazen
  • calumniatory
  • calumnious
  • cankering
  • castigating
  • censuring
  • chastening
  • cheapening
  • coarse
  • comedown
  • condemning
  • confounding
  • confusing
  • contaminating
  • contempt
  • contemptible
  • contemptuous
  • contumelious
  • contumely
  • corrupt
  • corrupting
  • corruption
  • criminal
  • criticizing
  • crude
  • crying down
  • culpability
  • damaging
  • damning
  • debasement
  • debauching
  • decrying
  • defacing
  • defamation
  • defamatory
  • defaming
  • defiling
  • degenerate
  • degradation
  • degrading
  • demeaning
  • demoralizing
  • denigrating
  • denouncing
  • depraving
  • deprecation
  • deprecatory
  • depreciating
  • depreciative
  • depreciatory
  • derision
  • derisive
  • derogative
  • derogatory
  • descending
  • despicable
  • despite
  • despiteful
  • destroying
  • deteriorating
  • detracting
  • detractive
  • detractory
  • difficult
  • diluting
  • diminishing
  • dirty
  • dirtying
  • disadvantageous
  • disagreeable
  • disapprobation
  • disapproval
  • disbarment
  • discomfiting
  • disconcerting
  • discountenancing
  • discounting
  • discredit
  • discrediting
  • disdain
  • disesteem
  • disfavor
  • disgrace
  • disgraceful
  • disgracing
  • dishonor
  • dishonoring
  • disparaging
  • disrepute
  • disrespect
  • disturbing
  • downgrading
  • dust
  • earthy
  • egregious
  • embarrassing
  • erotic
  • erotical
  • execrating
  • false
  • fazing
  • filthy
  • flagitious
  • flagrant
  • flawing
  • flustering
  • foul
  • fouling
  • gross
  • hard-core
  • harming
  • heinous
  • horrendous
  • horrible
  • humbling
  • humiliating
  • humiliation
  • hurting
  • ignoble
  • ignominy
  • ill repute
  • immodest
  • impairing
  • impossible
  • inconvenient
  • indecent
  • indecorous
  • inexpedient
  • infamous
  • infamy
  • infra indignitatem
  • ingloriousness
  • inhuman
  • iniquitous
  • injuring
  • injurious
  • insolent
  • insulting
  • intolerable
  • invective
  • invidious
  • irreverent
  • kinky
  • lascivious
  • lessening
  • lewd
  • libeling
  • libelling
  • loss of honor
  • lowering
  • lustful
  • malevolent
  • malicious
  • malign
  • malignant
  • maligning
  • marring
  • mature
  • meanness
  • minimizing
  • monstrous
  • mortifying
  • nasty
  • naughty
  • nefarious
  • nonplusing
  • nonplussing
  • notorious
  • obloquy
  • obscene
  • odious
  • odium
  • offending
  • offensive
  • opprobrious
  • opprobrium
  • pejorative
  • perverted
  • perverting
  • poisoning
  • polluting
  • pollution
  • pornographic
  • porny
  • profane
  • profaning
  • prostituting
  • prostitution
  • prurient
  • put down
  • putting down
  • racy
  • rattling
  • reprehending
  • reproach
  • reproaching
  • reprobating
  • reviling
  • ribald
  • ridiculing
  • rude
  • ruining
  • salacious
  • salty
  • sarcastic
  • scandal
  • scandalous
  • scorn
  • scurrilous
  • sexy
  • shadow
  • shame
  • shameless
  • shaming
  • shocking
  • sinful
  • sinking
  • slander
  • slandering
  • slight
  • slighting
  • slur
  • smirch
  • smirching
  • smutty
  • soft-core
  • spiteful
  • spoiling
  • spot
  • stain
  • staining
  • stigma
  • subverting
  • suggestive
  • taint
  • tainting
  • taking down
  • tarnish
  • tarnishing
  • thinning
  • traducing
  • troublesome
  • truculent
  • turpitude
  • unbearable
  • unbecoming
  • uncomfortable
  • uncomplimentary
  • ungodly
  • unpleasant
  • unprintable
  • unsettling
  • unspeakable
  • untrue
  • unwieldy
  • unworthy of one
  • venality
  • vile
  • vilifying
  • villainous
  • violent
  • vitiating
  • vitriolic
  • vituperative
  • vulgar
  • wanton
  • warping
  • watering down
  • weakening
  • wicked
  • wrecking
  • writing off

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