Intolerant
[ɪn'tɒl(ə)r(ə)nt] or [ɪn'tɑlərənt]
Definition
(a.) Not enduring; not able to endure.
(a.) Not tolerating difference of opinion or sentiment, especially in religious matters; refusing to allow others the enjoyment of their opinions, rights, or worship; unjustly impatient of the opinion of those disagree with us; not tolerant; unforbearing; bigoted.
(n.) An intolerant person; a bigot.
Edited by Hamilton
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Overbearing, supercilious, dictatorial, imperious.
Typed by Gilda
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See TOLERANT]
Checker: Phyllis
Examples
- In a sense this is true, for no one is more impatient or intolerant of interruption when deeply engaged in some line of experiment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Edison was intolerant of sham and shoddy, and nothing would satisfy him that could not stand cross-examination by microscope, test-tube, and galvanometer. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- And is this,' she added, looking at her visitor with the proud intolerant air with which she had begun, 'no injury? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Union men became rampant, aggressive, and, if you will, intolerant. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was as intolerant as a priest, though he had no altar; as obscurantist as a magician, though he had no cave. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were intolerant of questions or dissent, not because they were sure of their faith, but because they were not. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- It had to assume a severely technical form because the dignitaries of the church, ignorant and intolerant, were on the watch for heresy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Night came, but the unionists were conspicuous by their absence, although more circuits than one were intolerant of delay and clamorous for attention---eight local unionists being away. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The form of Islam he knew best was the narrow and fiercely intolerant form of the Turkish Sunnites. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Checker: Phyllis