unbearable
adj.too bad, painful, or annoying to deal with. You use this when you feel like you cannot handle a situation any longer.
adj.too unpleasant, painful, or intense to be tolerated. Often used predicatively after linking verbs such as 'become', 'seem', or 'feel'.
“The heat in the room was unbearable.”
“The silence in the house became unbearable after his best friend moved away.”
“The protagonist's grief is depicted as an unbearable weight, manifesting physically as a constant pressure in his chest that prevents him from engaging with the world.”
Often modified by adverbs of degree like 'almost', 'nearly', or 'virtually'.
Learners sometimes confuse the adjective 'unbearable' with the present participle 'unbearing', which is not a standard English word for this meaning.
“The other half of me was crushed by the absolute, unbearable pain that this decision comes 10 years too late for my brother, Tommy.”
“Image caption, Sir Keir Starmer's former chief of staff revealed how "unbearable" it was working in No 10, saying she feared she was being recorded by colleagues, the Guardian reports.”
From Middle English unberable, equivalent to un- + bearable.
Etymology adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.