intolerant

From French intolérant.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɑləɹənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtɒləɹənt/

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• Hyphenation: in‧tol‧er‧ant

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.

• lactose intolerant

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

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.

• “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.

Borrowed from Latin intolerantem.

intolerant m or f (masculine and feminine plural intolerants)

1. intolerant

   Antonym: tolerant

• intolerantment

• intolerància

• “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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• Rhymes: -ant

intolerant (strong nominative masculine singular intoleranter, comparative intoleranter, superlative am intolerantesten)

1. intolerant

• “intolerant” in Duden online
• “intolerant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Borrowed from French intolérant. Equivalent to in- +‎ tolerant.

intolerant m or n (feminine singular intolerantă, masculine plural intoleranți, feminine and neuter plural intolerante)

1. intolerant

intolerant (comparative intolerantare, superlative intolerantast)

1. intolerant (of a person, act, or the like)

   Antonym: tolerant

2. (especially medicine) intolerant (to a substance or the like)

   Antonym: (verb) tåla

   laktosintolerant

   lactose intolerant

• intolerans

• överkänslig

• intolerant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• intolerant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• intolerant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)