Definitions for insupportable
ˌɪn səˈpɔr tə bəl, -ˈpoʊr-in·sup·port·able

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. indefensible, insupportable, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, unwarrantedadjective

   incapable of being justified or explained

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. insupportableadjective

   Not supportable; incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Insupportableadjective

   Intolerable; insufferable; not to be endured.

   Etymology: insupportable, French; in and supportable.

   A disgrace put upon a man in company is insupportable; it is heightened according to the greatness, and multiplied according to the number of the persons that hear. South.

   The baser the enemies are, the more insupportable is the insolence. Roger L'Estrange, Fables.

   The thought of being nothing after death is a burden insupportable to a virtuous man: we naturally aim at happiness, and cannot bear to have it confined to our present being. Dryd.

   To those that dwell under or near the Equator, this Spring would be a most pestilent and insupportable Summer; and as for those countries that are nearer the Poles, a perpetual Spring will not do their business. Richard Bentley, Sermons.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Insupportableadjective

   incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain

2. Etymology: [L. insupportabilis: cf. F. insupportable. See In- not, and Support.]

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Insupportable

   in-sup-pōrt′a-bl, adj. not supportable or able to be endured: unbearable: insufferable: (Spens.) irresistible.—n. Insupport′ableness.—adv. Insupport′ably.

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of insupportable in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of insupportable in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of insupportable in a Sentence

1. Epictetus:

   To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable but everything reasonable may be supported.

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

3. Francois De La Rochefoucauld:

   To be deceived by our enemies or betrayed by our friends in insupportable; yet by ourselves we are often content to be so treated.

4. Richard Steele:

   The insupportable labor of doing nothing.

5. John Bunyan:

   Nothing can render affliction so insupportable as the load of sin. Would you then be fitted for afflictions? Be sure to get the burden of your sins laid aside, and then what affliction soever you may meet with will be very easy to you.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=insupportable
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Insupportable
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=insupportable
4. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insupportable
5. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=insupportable