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单词 intolerable
释义 in·tolerable
I. \(ˈ)in., ən.+\ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin intolerabilis, from in- in- (I) + tolerabilis tolerable
1. : not tolerable : not capable of being borne or endured : unbearable
 < intolerable pain >
 < intolerable anguish >
 < an intolerable burden >
 < an almost intolerable beauty — Bernard DeVoto >
2. archaic : not to be withstood : irresistible
3. : extreme, excessive
 < sometimes gives way to an intolerable degree of sentimentality over some of his women — C.H.Sykes >
 < scarcely to have made an impression upon the intolerable multitude of volumes which everyone is supposed to have read — Arnold Bennett >
 < an intolerable amount of airless inner space — Lewis Mumford >
in·tolerableness \“+\ noun
in·tolerably \“+\ adverb
II. adverb
: intolerably
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