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[ in-tol-er-uh-buhl ] / ɪnˈtɒl ər ə bəl / SEE SYNONYMS FOR intolerable ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot tolerable; unendurable; insufferable: intolerable pain. excessive. Origin of intolerableFirst recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Latin word intolerābilis.See in-3, tolerable SYNONYMS FOR intolerable1 unbearable, insupportable. SEE SYNONYMS FOR intolerable ON THESAURUS.COM ANTONYMS FOR intolerableSEE ANTONYMS FOR intolerable ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM intolerablein·tol·er·a·bil·i·ty, in·tol·er·a·ble·ness, nounin·tol·er·a·bly, adverbqua·si-in·tol·er·a·ble, adjectivequa·si-in·tol·er·a·bly, adverb su·per·in·tol·er·a·ble, adjectivesu·per·in·tol·er·a·ble·ness, nounsu·per·in·tol·er·a·bly, adverb WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH intolerableintolerable , intolerantWords nearby intolerableinto account, intoe, intoed, into effect, in token of, intolerable, Intolerable Acts, intolerance, intolerant, into line, intomb Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for intolerableWhen the problem is already political, when the intolerable situation is the status quo? Cover-Ups and Concern Trolls: Actually, It's About Ethics in Suicide Journalism|Arthur Chu|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST “My personal life had basically reached a dead end and the pressures on me were intolerable,” he says. Iranian Poet Blacklisted for Being Gay|Nina Strochlic|July 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST It also must have diminished significantly the CGI budget, as well as removed an intolerable amount of background noise. ‘Noah’: The Bible vs. the Blockbuster|Joel Baden|March 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST A joke rapper is one thing, but a bad joke rapper is intolerable. ‘Because the Internet’ Review: Childish Gambino Is Hip-Hop’s Perennial Outsider|Rawiya Kameir|December 10, 2013|DAILY BEAST
That collective gasp you hear is the audience jolted by intolerable cruelty in 12 Years a Slave. The ‘12 Years a Slave’ Book Shows Slavery As Even More Appalling Than In the Film|Jimmy So|October 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST This process would be so arbitrary and inequitable in its operation as to be intolerable. Proportional Representation Applied To Party Government|T. R. Ashworth and H. P. C. Ashworth How fatal then, how tormenting, how intolerable, must her reverse of fortune be! The Adventures of Roderick Random|Tobias Smollett He does not pretend to be just, while he is committing, or winking at, the most intolerable injustices. God and Mr. Wells|William Archer Nor can it be said that, during Queen Margaret's life, the conditions were intolerable. The Story of Norway|Hjalmar H. Boyesen In the intolerable anxiety of the moment he had forgotten to resist, he had not even thought of resisting. The Witch of Prague|F. Marion Crawford
British Dictionary definitions for intolerable
adjectivemore than can be tolerated or endured; insufferable informal extremely irritating or annoying Derived forms of intolerableintolerability or intolerableness, nounintolerably, adverbCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to intolerableunbearable, extreme, painful, impossible, unendurable, excruciating, insufferable, last straw, offensive, undesirable, insupportable, a bit much |