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Definition of insupportable in English: insupportableadjective ɪnsəˈpɔːtəb(ə)lˌɪnsəˈpɔrdəb(ə)l 1Unable to be supported or justified. 无根据的；不合理的 he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion 他得出了完全站不住脚的结论。 Example sentencesExamples - By positing insupportable images of the divine, they invite us to judgment.
- The assumption that everyone wants to see a doctor when they are ill is insupportable, and evidence is accumulating that they welcome the opportunity to consult a nurse.
- My first move has to be, obviously, an admission that he is absolutely right to say that my claim ‘this did not happen’ is insupportable.
- There is no evidence to suggest that her exercise of her discretion to seek admission of the statement was based on insupportable grounds.
- But let's leave this increasingly insupportable series of generalizations, and return to the point.
- The Pope has asked Catholics to conclude that capital punishment is insupportable.
- If I were the judge, I would not feel that the jury had reached an insupportable conclusion.
- The Israeli army doesn't even make this insupportable claim.
- The claims of his father's other heirs that he is entitled to the nominal amount as was at the time of his mother's death is insupportable.
- Here we have a simple tale of him leaping to conclusions, making unsupported and insupportable inferences, and being treated as a hero for it.
- Therefore, I think that within a university, people should not regard any academic speech as frightening and insupportable.
- The arguments for restrictions on sales of ugly fruit are so ‘rotten’ that they are logically insupportable.
- So, I then ask myself whether the justices have reached insupportable conclusions of fact.
- And every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States.
- Moreover, its essentially political character may dilute the force of legal standards and merely serve to legitimize practices otherwise insupportable from an environmental viewpoint.
- Although two nineteenth-century authorities suggest that cheques may also be drawn on an interest-bearing account, this view is insupportable in modern law.
- Such myths and misrepresentations explain, justify and resolve insupportable contradictions and problems in society.
- I went through some of the other instances where he made declarations that appeared insupportable.
- Even so, with such a wealth of experience and talent, to quibble over a little forgotten punctuation is insupportable!
- Too many liberals, who approved the words, found the actions insupportable.
Synonyms unjustifiable, without justification, indefensible, inexcusable, unforgivable, unpardonable, unwarrantable, unreasonable groundless, unfounded, without foundation, foundationless, baseless, without basis, unsupported, unsubstantiated, unconfirmed, uncorroborated, invalid, untenable, implausible, weak, shaky, flawed, specious, defective 2Unable to be endured; intolerable. 难以容忍的，不可忍受的 the heat was insupportable 热得难以忍受。 Example sentencesExamples - What is happening in the world that causes engaging, promising, talented young people to find life so insupportable that they can't continue without external support?
- You have to slow down to a pace that is nearly insupportable without practice, and you have to project, because the audience needs to hear every word, being unable to use the skipping techniques of the sighted reader.
- Even if it were true, The Rapture is saying, the consequences are insupportable.
- That position is both morally insupportable and legally imprudent.
- As Version 1.0 of the industrial economy loses its social mandate - as its cultural and environmental costs become insupportable - what shall we replace it with?
- The 2 minute egg is marginally under boiled, the silk shirt is not wearable because of a wrinkle, the chauffeur is insupportable because he's been eating garlic again, and the doorman is either too inattentive or overly familiar.
- It should come as little surprise, then, that I found it nearly insupportable to share the lift with such a person, even for a few minutes.
- The idea of selling part of the borough's heritage and permitting commercial activities where none existed before is opportunistic and insupportable.
- Tolstoy may have intended partial assent to the idea that, life being insupportable without some straining toward ‘transcendence,’ a belief in God is a psychological necessity.
- If today life without the possibility of progress seems insupportable, it is worth asking how this state of affairs has come about.
- The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.
- These beeches do not appear to be harmed, although for most plants, losses of much less than 40 percent of their energy reserves would be insupportable.
- Amid all the election-year hosannas to the federal budget surplus, there has been almost no discussion of the trade deficit, which would quickly become an insupportable burden if foreign investors began to flee the US market.
- In The Brothers Karamazov, he has his Grand Inquisitor declaim: ‘Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom’.
- No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere than it exercises, even unintentionally, an insupportable tyranny.
- Indexing on the basis of a group of individual perspectives effectively shatters any attempt at establishing corporate consistency into a multitude of insupportable idiosyncrasies.
- It seemed like a wonderful strategy for offloading what promised to become an insupportable liability to pay public sector pensions.
- The growing debt burden became insupportable in the late 1970s, and economic growth had become negative by 1979.
- To be abandoned, especially when he was under attack in the British press for escaping the Blitz, was insupportable.
- Now, you've got a point, that you have a war ideologue, which is insupportable.
Synonyms intolerable, insufferable, unbearable, unendurable, unacceptable, oppressive, overwhelming, overpowering, impossible, not to be borne, past bearing, too much to bear, more than one can stand, more than flesh and blood can stand unspeakable, dreadful, excruciating informal too much
OriginMid 16th century: from French, from in- 'not' + supportable (from supporter 'to support'). Definition of insupportable in US English: insupportableadjectiveˌɪnsəˈpɔrdəb(ə)lˌinsəˈpôrdəb(ə)l 1Unable to be supported or justified. 无根据的；不合理的 he had arrived at a wholly insupportable conclusion 他得出了完全站不住脚的结论。 Example sentencesExamples - Too many liberals, who approved the words, found the actions insupportable.
- Here we have a simple tale of him leaping to conclusions, making unsupported and insupportable inferences, and being treated as a hero for it.
- And every now and then, he writes these hysterical, factually insupportable, logically inconsistent screeds against some looming threat to civil liberties in the United States.
- Even so, with such a wealth of experience and talent, to quibble over a little forgotten punctuation is insupportable!
- The Israeli army doesn't even make this insupportable claim.
- But let's leave this increasingly insupportable series of generalizations, and return to the point.
- By positing insupportable images of the divine, they invite us to judgment.
- Such myths and misrepresentations explain, justify and resolve insupportable contradictions and problems in society.
- I went through some of the other instances where he made declarations that appeared insupportable.
- The claims of his father's other heirs that he is entitled to the nominal amount as was at the time of his mother's death is insupportable.
- The assumption that everyone wants to see a doctor when they are ill is insupportable, and evidence is accumulating that they welcome the opportunity to consult a nurse.
- Moreover, its essentially political character may dilute the force of legal standards and merely serve to legitimize practices otherwise insupportable from an environmental viewpoint.
- The arguments for restrictions on sales of ugly fruit are so ‘rotten’ that they are logically insupportable.
- Therefore, I think that within a university, people should not regard any academic speech as frightening and insupportable.
- If I were the judge, I would not feel that the jury had reached an insupportable conclusion.
- There is no evidence to suggest that her exercise of her discretion to seek admission of the statement was based on insupportable grounds.
- Although two nineteenth-century authorities suggest that cheques may also be drawn on an interest-bearing account, this view is insupportable in modern law.
- The Pope has asked Catholics to conclude that capital punishment is insupportable.
- My first move has to be, obviously, an admission that he is absolutely right to say that my claim ‘this did not happen’ is insupportable.
- So, I then ask myself whether the justices have reached insupportable conclusions of fact.
Synonyms unjustifiable, without justification, indefensible, inexcusable, unforgivable, unpardonable, unwarrantable, unreasonable 2Unable to be endured; intolerable. 难以容忍的，不可忍受的 the heat was insupportable 热得难以忍受。 Example sentencesExamples - Now, you've got a point, that you have a war ideologue, which is insupportable.
- In The Brothers Karamazov, he has his Grand Inquisitor declaim: ‘Nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom’.
- To be abandoned, especially when he was under attack in the British press for escaping the Blitz, was insupportable.
- It seemed like a wonderful strategy for offloading what promised to become an insupportable liability to pay public sector pensions.
- The idea of selling part of the borough's heritage and permitting commercial activities where none existed before is opportunistic and insupportable.
- Indexing on the basis of a group of individual perspectives effectively shatters any attempt at establishing corporate consistency into a multitude of insupportable idiosyncrasies.
- You have to slow down to a pace that is nearly insupportable without practice, and you have to project, because the audience needs to hear every word, being unable to use the skipping techniques of the sighted reader.
- No sooner does a government attempt to go beyond its political sphere than it exercises, even unintentionally, an insupportable tyranny.
- The added demands brought about by the ageing population will place an insupportable burden on acute hospital services.
- As Version 1.0 of the industrial economy loses its social mandate - as its cultural and environmental costs become insupportable - what shall we replace it with?
- It should come as little surprise, then, that I found it nearly insupportable to share the lift with such a person, even for a few minutes.
- Tolstoy may have intended partial assent to the idea that, life being insupportable without some straining toward ‘transcendence,’ a belief in God is a psychological necessity.
- That position is both morally insupportable and legally imprudent.
- Even if it were true, The Rapture is saying, the consequences are insupportable.
- The growing debt burden became insupportable in the late 1970s, and economic growth had become negative by 1979.
- If today life without the possibility of progress seems insupportable, it is worth asking how this state of affairs has come about.
- The 2 minute egg is marginally under boiled, the silk shirt is not wearable because of a wrinkle, the chauffeur is insupportable because he's been eating garlic again, and the doorman is either too inattentive or overly familiar.
- These beeches do not appear to be harmed, although for most plants, losses of much less than 40 percent of their energy reserves would be insupportable.
- What is happening in the world that causes engaging, promising, talented young people to find life so insupportable that they can't continue without external support?
- Amid all the election-year hosannas to the federal budget surplus, there has been almost no discussion of the trade deficit, which would quickly become an insupportable burden if foreign investors began to flee the US market.
Synonyms intolerable, insufferable, unbearable, unendurable, unacceptable, oppressive, overwhelming, overpowering, impossible, not to be borne, past bearing, too much to bear, more than one can stand, more than flesh and blood can stand
OriginMid 16th century: from French, from in- ‘not’ + supportable (from supporter ‘to support’). |