intolerable
Americanadjective
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not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable.
intolerable pain.
- Synonyms:
- insupportable , unbearable
- Antonyms
- endurable
adjective
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more than can be tolerated or endured; insufferable
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informal extremely irritating or annoying
Other Word Forms
- intolerability noun
- intolerableness noun
- intolerably adverb
- quasi-intolerable adjective
- quasi-intolerably adverb
- superintolerable adjective
- superintolerableness noun
- superintolerably adverb
Etymology
Origin of intolerable
First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Latin word intolerābilis. See in- 3, tolerable
Example Sentences
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What made it all intolerable was her manner.
The section with the highest and intolerable risk has an estimated probability of a fatality from a rockfall event of one in 4,886.
From BBC
He called his strategy “maximum pressure”—a full-court press aimed at provoking a revolt against the government by rendering living conditions in Venezuela intolerable, while at the same time trying to trigger a military uprising.
Italy's government said Thursday it would address concerns over a new bridge to Sicily, after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni condemned a court ruling against the project as an "intolerable intrusion".
From Barron's
"It's just intolerable to go outside sometimes," she said.
From BBC
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