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What (who) is insupportable - definition
Insupportable
·adj Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain.
insupportable
¦ adjective
1. unable to be supported or justified.
2. intolerable.
Derivatives
insupportably adverb
insupportable
If you say that something is insupportable, you mean that it cannot be coped with or accepted. (FORMAL)
Too much spending on rearmament would place an insupportable burden on the nation's productive capacity...
Life without Anna had no savour, was tedious, insupportable.
= intolerable
ADJ
Examples of use of insupportable
1. The cold was almost insupportable; however, I was very lightly clad.
2. The burden on the nation is not only grossly unjust – it will be insupportable 30 or 40 years from now.
3. That apart, what is insupportable is the internal chicanery, corruption and cretinism that good governance is supposed to extirpate.
4. Paul Ware said murder charges brought against Sharratt for killing three Iraqi brothers were based on unreliable witness accounts, insupportable forensic evidence and questionable legal theories.
5. What is insupportable is the utter indifference of American leaders, even those who oppose the war, to the suffering of the Iraqi people.