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INTOLERABLE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incapable of being tolerated or endured
Example:
an intolerable degree of sentimentality
Synonyms:
intolerable; unbearable; unendurable
Classified under:
Similar:
bitter (very difficult to accept or bear)
insufferable; unsufferable (too extreme to bear)
impossible; unacceptable ((used of persons or their behavior) not acceptable or reasonable)
insufferable (unbearably arrogant or conceited)
unsupportable (not able to be supported or defended)
Also:
impermissible (not permitted)
Antonym:
tolerable (capable of being borne or endured)
Context examples:
Issue associated with the ability of a system to function in its electromagnetic environment without introducing intolerable disturbances to anything in its environment.
(Electromagnetic Compatibility Issue Associated with Medical Device, Food and Drug Administration)
It would be intolerable to me to pass a whole evening tete-a-tete with a brat.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Dazed, suffering intolerable pain from throat and tongue, with the life half throttled out of him, Buck attempted to face his tormentors.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
His head ached, the top of it ached, the back of it ached, the brains inside of it ached and seemed to be swelling, while the ache over his brows was intolerable.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
“Silver, if you like,” cried the squire; “but as for that intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
She might assist his resolution, or reconcile him to it; she might give just praise to Harriet, or, by representing to him his own independence, relieve him from that state of indecision, which must be more intolerable than any alternative to such a mind as his.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Words used to describe very unpleasant pain include 'miserable' and intolerable.' Remember, pain can have a low intensity, buy still feel extremely unpleasant, and some kinds of pain can have a high intensity but be very tolerable. With this scale, please tell us how unpleasant your pain feels.
(NPS - Tell Us Overall How Unpleasant Your Pain is to You, NCI Thesaurus)
This is intolerable.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
During the first year, I could not endure my wife or children in my presence; the very smell of them was intolerable; much less could I suffer them to eat in the same room.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
I was lifted lightly from the ground, and I felt an intolerable pressure forcing my head back and back until the strain upon the cervical spine was more than I could bear.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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