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  2. Britannica Dictionary definition of INSUPPORTABLE. [more insupportable; most insupportable] formal. : more or worse than can be dealt with or accepted. insupportable [= insufferable, intolerable] behavior. an insupportable [= unbearable] burden.

  3. Insupportable means something that cannot be endured or tolerated, while unsupportable means something that cannot be justified or proven. For example, saying “the pain was insupportable” is correct, but saying “the argument was insupportable” would be incorrect.

  4. adjective. formal us / ˌɪn.səˈpɔːr.t̬ə.b ə l / uk / ˌɪn.səˈpɔː.tə.b ə l / Add to word list Add to word list. difficult or impossible to bear: The war had put an insupportable financial burden on the country. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Complicated and difficult to do. advanced. ambitiously. another. arduous. fierce. formidable.

  5. silly. unsuitably. unsuited. unwarrantable. unwarrantably. unworthily. See more results » unsupportableadjective (NOT ACCEPTABLE) If something bad is unsupportable, you are not able to accept that it should continue: In the end, the cost of the wars became unsupportable, both morally and financially.

  6. unintuitive. unresolvable. See more results » (Definition of insupportable from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press) Examples of insupportable. insupportable. Reducing the middle class to a conservative monolith is an insupportable simplification. From the Cambridge English Corpus.

  7. adjective. incapable of being justified or explained. synonyms: indefensible, unjustifiable, unwarrantable, unwarranted. inexcusable. without excuse or justification.

  8. Definition of insupportable adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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