What's the difference between intolerable and unbearable?

Intolerable


Definition:

  • (a.) Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.
  • (a.) Enormous.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To investigate the relationship between Helicobacter pylori infection and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) intolerance and the effect of gold use on the seroprevalence of H. pylori.
  • (2) Several pedigrees have been reported in which defects of the insulin gene result in glucose intolerance or diabetes in affected members, but the role of insulin gene mutations in NIDDM is unknown.
  • (3) Total white cell counts were reviewed in paediatric in-patients with viral gastroenteritis, bacterial gastroenteritis, delayed recovery following acute gastroenteritis, viral lower respiratory tract infections and cow's milk protein intolerance.
  • (4) Stress may increase to an intolerable level with the number of tasks, with higher qualified work and due to the lack of familiarity with fellow workers in ever changing settings.
  • (5) In the remaining 39% the most common causes were represented by intolerance reactions (16%), infection causes (16%) and physical causes (13%).
  • (6) Thirteen asthmatic subjects (six aspirin tolerant and seven aspirin intolerant) in a stable clinical condition and ten healthy subjects were studied.
  • (7) In some of the 10 patients who tolerated cow's milk challenge clinically there was an increase in both IgA- and IgM-containing cells suggestive of a local immunological reaction although no clinical intolerance was provoked and other immunological signs were weak or absent.
  • (8) Obesity is characterized by a high risk for glucose intolerance and cardiovascular disease.
  • (9) To determine the pathogenesis of carbohydrate intolerance associated with gonadal dysgenesis, plasma glucose, insulin, glucagon, and growth hormone responses to oral glucose and intravenous tolbutamide, arginine and insulin were evaluated in 21 nonobese patients, 7-19 years old.
  • (10) Pregnancy, hyperthyroidism and intolerances are given as contraindications.
  • (11) Reasons for stopping treatment early included progressive disease, stable disease without symptomatic improvement, or severe toxicity deemed intolerable by either the patient or physician.
  • (12) An obsessional artist who was an enemy of all institutions, cinematic as well as social, and whose principal theme was intolerance, he invariably gets delivered to us today by institutions - most recently the National Film Theatre, which starts a Dreyer retrospective this month - that can't always be counted on to represent him in all his complexity.
  • (13) Most patients with abnormal OGTT's fell into the latter group, but some had glucose intolerance without either an exaggerated insulin response or insulin resistance.
  • (14) Commonly associated medical problems include hypertension in 50%, hyperlipidemia in 41%, and diabetes mellitus or glucose intolerance in 14%.
  • (15) Eleven infants recovering from protein-calorie malnutrition secondary to acquired monosaccharide intolerance were found to have reduced plasma bicarbonate concentration associated with inadequate weight gain.
  • (16) These include disease activity, presence or absence of symptoms, degree of deformity and resultant potential for complications, shoe intolerance, and level of activity.
  • (17) Our ability to design effective countermeasures to orthostatic circulatory intolerance is severely handicapped by our inadequate knowledge of the basic hemodynamic events incident to normal and abnormal orthostatic tolerance.
  • (18) Cow's milk protein intolerance (CMPI) is recognised as an important cause of protean symptoms in infants.
  • (19) Successful use of PMP in one steroid and cytotoxic drug intolerant patient with AIED led to its use in a total of eight patients.
  • (20) Extracardiac adverse effects of quinidine include potentially intolerable gastrointestinal effects and hypersensitivity reactions such as fever, rash, blood dyscrasias and hepatitis.

Unbearable


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This unbearable situation leads to panic and auto-sensory deprivation.
  • (2) Thus tissue and cellular damage may not be ischemic in nature but rather mediated by other mechanisms such as unbearable mechanical stress.
  • (3) Otherwise it’s unbearable.” She glances over my shoulder again: “I’m going to have to change position.
  • (4) He also thanked nearly everyone who had been involved in the trial: his attorneys, his family, everyone who testified “with dignity” about their “unbearable” hardships.
  • (5) Often the prospect of going to court for victims is unbearable; they feel they have already been judged and they don’t want to go through the abuse again.
  • (6) For the patients with unbearable paroxystic pain, when medical treatment failed, the destruction of deafferented dorsal horns at the level of avulsion (Nashold procedure) could produce pain relief.
  • (7) When facing the abortion question the following are necessary: more complete information on the consequences of indiscriminate sexual relations; a wider spread knowledge of contraceptive practices; the institution of special aid to unmarried mothers so as to prevent abortion remaining the only possible solution for an unbearable situation and which hides a serious psychological risk.
  • (8) Anyone expecting the public to suddenly turn on Ailes in a way it hasn’t before is likely to be disappointed, Tyndall said, adding that part of Fox News’s classic-TV appeal is a re-creation of the permissive atmosphere that has historically made life unbearable for women in entertainment.
  • (9) Berg sat with Leija on Thursday evening, learning to sing Chris Medina's What Are Words, which includes lyrics that could be considered unbearably trite were they not now so fitting: "And I know an angel was sent just for me, And I know I'm meant to be where I am, And I'm gonna be, Standing right beside her tonight."
  • (10) And which, in the case of Scarlett and MacKeown, grasps at any semblance of 'otherness', because the truth (it could easily happen to your child) is too unbearable to contemplate.
  • (11) The results are interpreted to suggest that persons who commit homicide-suicide are acting out a three-party rescue fantasy in an attempt to resolve unbearable stress.
  • (12) Almost 800 have taken the first step to taking their lives by becoming members of Dignitas, and 34 men and women, who feel their suffering has become unbearable, are ready to travel to Zurich and take a lethal drug overdose.
  • (13) Their songs ranged from the almost unbearably poignant ("Hand in Glove") to the frankly vulnerable ("How Soon is Now").
  • (14) Without medication the pain is unbearable: during some of my worst attacks, I've been known to bang my head on the wall.
  • (15) I have tickets for the knock-out rounds and it would be unbearable if Portugal were already on a plane home.
  • (16) Pessimists predict a human tide that will put an unbearable burden on food, jobs, schools, housing and healthcare.
  • (17) Watched by a quiet, oddly tense crowd of onlookers, the couple looked almost unbearably young and vulnerable – as if, one observer joked, on their way to the guillotine.
  • (18) He wanted to openly condemn this unbearable situation.
  • (19) The second half roared on towards its conclusion, the tension close to unbearable, when he announced that he would have to nip out once more as his earlier exit had clearly been the reason for Jô’s goal.
  • (20) After the election, when interest rates are rising and public services are falling apart, Labour would find governing impossible and unbearable if they had signed up to Osborne's killer cuts.