intolerable

intolerable (ɪnˈtɒlərəb^əl)

—*adj*
1.	more than can be tolerated or endured; insufferable
2.	informal extremely irritating or annoying

intolera'bility

—n

in'tolerableness

—n

in'tolerably

—*adv*

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Word Origin & History

intolerable

1435, from L. intolerabilis "that cannot bear, that cannot be borne," from in- "not" + tolerabilis "that may be endured," from tolerare "to tolerate" (see toleration). Intolerance "unwillingness to endure a differing opinion" first attested 1765.

Example sentences

If you have nothing in writing as to the promises, it may be best to move on if

the current situation is intolerable.

The inability to work with more than one file at a time is intolerable.

It does not often give one the nearly intolerable apprehension of doom that

pervades a more brooding and deliberate presentation.

Logically preposterous toponyms are the rule, not intolerable exceptions.

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"And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become mad, in the socially accepted sense of the word, rather than forfeit a certain superior idea of human honor. So society has strangled in its asylums all those it wanted to get rid of or protect itself from, because they refused to become its accomplices in certain great nastinesses. For a madman is also a man whom society did not want to hear and whom it wanted to prevent from uttering certain intolerable truths."

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