intolerant

See also: intolérant

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French intolérant.

Adjective

intolerant (comparative more intolerant, superlative most intolerant)

1. Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.

   I am lactose-intolerant, so I can't drink milk.

   • 2013, Sarah Taylor, Vegetarian to Vegan: Give Up Dairy, Give Up Eggs for Good:

     When our bodies no longer create the enzyme needed to break down lactose, we can become intolerant to it.

   • 1892, Harry Marshall Ward, The Oak: A Popular Introduction to Forest-botany

     The oak, as is well known, is a slow-growing, dicotyledonous tree of peculiar spreading habit, and very intolerant of shade.

   • 1751, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:

     The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.

2. Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas; indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.

Related terms

• intolerance
• intolerantly
• intolerate
• intoleration
• tolerance
• tolerant

Translations

unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear

• Bulgarian: нетърпи́м (bg) (netǎrpím)
• Catalan: intolerant (ca)
• Esperanto: netolerema
• French: intolérant (fr)
• Georgian: არატოლერანტული (araṭoleranṭuli)
• German: unduldsam (de), intolerant (de)
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• Hungarian: érzékeny (hu)
• Polish: nietolerujący
• Russian: нетерпи́мый (ru) (neterpímyj)
• Spanish: intolerante (es)

not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas

• Bulgarian: нетърпи́м (bg) (netǎrpím)
• Catalan: intolerant (ca)
• Finnish: suvaitsematon (fi)
• French: intolérant (fr)
• German: intolerant (de)
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• Hungarian: intoleráns, türelmetlen (hu)
• Polish: nietolerancyjny (pl)
• Russian: нетерпи́мый (ru) (neterpímyj), нетолера́нтный (ru) (netolerántnyj)
• Spanish: intolerante (es)

Noun

intolerant (plural intolerants)

1. One who is intolerant; a bigot.
   • 1856, John David Chambers, Strictures, legal and historical, on the judgment of the Consistory Court of London, in December, 1855, in the Case of Westerton Versus Liddell:

     […] a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants, might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.

References

• “intolerant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “intolerant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Catalan

Etymology

From Latin intolerans.

Adjective

intolerant m or f (masculine and feminine plural intolerants)

1. intolerant

   Antonym: tolerant

Related terms

• intolerància

Further reading

• “intolerant” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “intolerant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “intolerant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “intolerant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

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German

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

intolerant (comparative intoleranter, superlative am intolerantesten)

1. intolerant

Further reading

• “intolerant” in Duden online