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Webster 1913 Edition
Intolerable
1.
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.His insolence is more
Than all the princes in the land beside.
intolerable
Than all the princes in the land beside.
Shakespeare
4.
Enormous.
– In-tol′er-a-ble-ness
, Noun.
In-tol′er-a-bly
, adv.
Webster 1828 Edition
Intolerable
INTOL'ERABLE
,Adj.
1.
Not to be borne; that cannot be endured; as intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.2.
Insufferable; as intolerable laziness.Definition 2024
intolerable
intolerable
See also: intolérable
English
Adjective
intolerable (comparative more intolerable, superlative most intolerable)
- Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable.
- Extremely offensive or insulting.
- 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 4
- It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating.
- 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 4
Usage notes
- Nouns to which "intolerable" is often applied: cruelty, burden, situation, condition, pain, heat, position, life, state, suffering, evil, risk, insult, hardship, agony, behavior, affront, insolence, stress, consequence, people.
Derived terms
Translations
not tolerable
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extremely offensive
References
- intolerable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
- intolerable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913