Intolerable
[ɪn'tɒl(ə)rəb(ə)l] or [ɪn'tɑlərəbl]
Definition
(adj.) incapable of being put up with; 'an intolerable degree of sentimentality' .
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Definition
(a.) 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.
(a.) Enormous.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, not to be tolerated.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See INSUFFERABLE]
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Definition
adj. that cannot be endured.—n. Intol′erableness.—adv. Intol′erably.—ns. Intol′erance Intolerā′tion.—adj. Intol′erant not able or willing to endure: not enduring difference of opinion: persecuting.—n. one opposed to toleration.—adv. Intol′erantly.
Typist: Ruben
Examples
- The tension of patriotic and republican France was now becoming intolerable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It was intolerable, this possession at the hands of woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- To think of that is nearly intolerable! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Then Osborne had the intolerable sense of former benefits to goad and irritate him: these are always a cause of hostility aggravated. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- You are very kind not to reproach me, she said: I weep, and a bitter pang of intolerable sorrow tears my heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- It was an intolerable oppression to her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Men will not go on submitting to such intolerable ugliness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He is the most intolerable scoundrel on the face of the earth. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The thing one most longs for may be surrounded with conditions that would be intolerable. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- This is intolerable! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Oh, intolerable questions, when I could do nothing and go nowhere! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In a light tax, a considerable degree of inequality may be supported; in a heavy one, it is altogether intolerable. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She had FELT it turning white so often, under the intolerable burden of her thoughts, und her sensations. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It was intolerable for her. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- The roads were intolerable, and in some places on Sherman's line, where the land was low, they were covered more than a foot deep with water. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It is the almost universal bad manners of the present age which make race intolerable to race. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Thank you for your hospitality, retorted Maurice angrily, for the mocking tone of this scamp was intolerable; but '_Timeo Danaos_. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- The weather was very bad; snow and rain fell; the roads, never good in that section, were intolerable. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- There was an obtrusive show of compassionate zeal in his voice and manner, more intolerable--at least to me--than any demeanour he could have assumed. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I form no expectation of alteration for the better; but the monotonous present is intolerable to me. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- And it was too intolerable that Casaubon's dislike of him should not be fairly accounted for to Dorothea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Unless I had been animated by an almost supernatural enthusiasm, my application to this study would have been irksome, and almost intolerable. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Finally (44 B.C.) he was assassinated by a group of his own friends and supporters, to whom these divine aspirations had become intolerable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Perhaps the insults of the men were not, however, so intolerable to her as the sympathy of certain women. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The name, in Loerke's mouth particularly, had been an intolerable humiliation and constraint upon her, these many days. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- So this raid of an intolerable egotist across the disordered beginnings of a new time should have closed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You had better not talk any more now, Clym, said Eustacia faintly from the other part of the room, for the scene was growing intolerable to her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- What did he do, he made the burden for her greater, the burden of her sleep was the more intolerable, when he was there. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Anarchism--men die for that, they undergo intolerable insults. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Typist: Ruben