intolerable
adj.adj. too bad, painful, or difficult to deal with. You use this when you cannot accept or handle a situation any longer.
adj. too severe, unpleasant, or extreme to be accepted or endured. Often used predicatively after linking verbs like 'become' or 'remain'.
The heat in the room became intolerable.
The constant noise from the construction site next door made working from home intolerable for the residents.
While minor disagreements are expected in any partnership, the persistent lack of transparency eventually created an intolerable atmosphere of distrust that led to the firm's dissolution.
Inherited from Middle English intolerable, borrowed from Middle French intolerable, from Latin intolerābilis. By surface analysis, in- + tolerable.
Often follows linking verbs or modifies abstract nouns like 'pain', 'burden', or 'conditions'.
The pain was untolerableThe pain was intolerableLearners often use the prefix 'un-' because of the verb 'unfold' or 'unpleasant', but 'intolerable' uses the Latinate prefix 'in-'.