insupportable

Modifying Another Word

• almost: The odor from this source has been, with a favorable wind, almost insupportable, even in the center of the city.
• quite: It was hardly inspiration to yield to a famine after the situation had become quite insupportable.

Modifies a noun

• burden: The high value of the pound was imposing an " insupportable burden " , he claimed.

Used with adjective complement

• become: The heat soon became insupportable within the circle of furnaces, the rumbling of which resembled the rolling of thunder.
• find: We are assured however, that conditions of empire, new or old order, are conditions which the conquered find insupportable.