单词 | intolerant |
释义 | intolerantadj.n. A. adj. Not tolerant; wanting in tolerance or toleration. 1. a. Not having the habit or capacity of tolerating (something); unable, or unwilling, to tolerate or endure (something specified). Const. of. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adjective] > weak in character or will > unable to tolerate intolerant1733 1733 J. Arbuthnot Ess. Effects Air Human Bodies 17 The Powers of Human Bodies being limited and intolerant of Excesses. 1864 J. H. Burton Scot Abroad I. v. 275 At one period aristocracy and government are intolerant of the poor and of liberty—at another, the populace are intolerant of rank and order. 1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 4 We are intolerant of everything that is not simple. 1896 Spectator 31 Oct. 583/1 You..hear physicians say that this or that man's constitution is ‘intolerant’ of this or that drug, intolerant, say, of quinine or iron. b. Ecology. Of trees or other plants: unable to flourish in deep shade. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by habitat or distribution > [adjective] > that thrives or does not thrive in shade umbriphilous1592 shade-bearing1889 intolerant1898 sciophilous1900 shade-tolerant1952 1898 G. Pinchot Adirondack Spruce 5 The Poplar, a tree very intolerant of shade..rapidly takes possession of the soil. 1898 G. Pinchot Adirondack Spruce 22 If the intolerant species can get the start, being often rapid of growth, they may hold their position by growing above the other trees about them. 1929 J. E. Weaver & F. E. Clements Plant Ecol. xiv. 320 The leaves of intolerant trees can not make food in weak, diffuse light. 1952 P. W. Richards Trop. Rain Forest iii. 42 Of the young trees in this patch of undergrowth the more light-demanding (intolerant) species respond more quickly than the shade-bearing (tolerant) species. 1965 G. L. Clarke Elem. Ecol. (rev. ed.) vi. 233 Plants that require strong illumination and will not survive or develop in reduced light are referred to as intolerant species. 2. spec. That does not tolerate opinions or practices different from one's own, esp. in religious matters; that denies or refuses to others the right to differ or dissent; disposed to persecute those who differ. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > bigotry, intolerance > [adjective] hidebound1603 bigot1623 bigotish1652 bigoted1660 bigoticala1670 bigotic1678 intolerating1711 intolerant1765 chauvinist1877 redneck1938 chauvinistic1975 shut-minded1977 1765 R. Lowth Let. to Warburton 62 Why then am I branded, as an intolerant Zealot? 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. ii. 67 The national temper of the Jews was intolerant. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 167 The House of Commons..showed a strong disposition to check the intolerant loyalty of the Cavaliers. 1878 J. Morley Carlyle in Crit. Misc. 200 Holding one or other of the rival creeds in its most extreme, exclusive and intolerant form. B. n. An intolerant person. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > expressed belief, opinion > bias, prejudice > bigotry, intolerance > [noun] > person bigot1683 intolerant1765 fascist1958 Archie Bunker1971 chauvinist1977 fascista1987 1765 R. Lowth Let. to Warburton 61 You might as well have concluded, that I was a Jew, or a Mahometan, as an Intolerant and a Persecutor. 1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 22 404 They are finished intolerants and exclusionists. 1881 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. 159 Rival intolerants each 'gainst other flamed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.n.1733 |
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