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   intolerable

   /ɪnˈtɒl(ə)rəb(ə)l/

   adjective

   • 1. unable to be endured: "the intolerable pressures of his work"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin intolerabilis, from in- ‘not’ + tolerabilis (see tolerable).

   Derivatives

   • 1. intolerably adverb
   • 2. intolerability noun
   • 3. intolerableness noun

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   What does intolerable mean?

   • 無法容忍的，不能接受的… 无法容忍的，不能接受的… intolerable, insoportable… intolerável… Need a translator? Get a quick, free translation! INTOLERABLE definition: 1. too bad or unpleasant to deal with or accept: 2. too bad or unpleasant to deal with or accept….

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   What is the root word of intolerable?

   • Intolerable, tolerable, tolerate, tolerant, and even extol all share the same Latin root word tolerare, which means to bear. Intolerable couples that with the prefix in-, which means not, giving the word its unbearable meaning. The Intolerable Acts, for example, were laws passed by the British Parliament in 1774.

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   What is an intolerable situation?

   • If a situation is intolerable, you need to leave it. They have a sharp, shrewish look, which I do not like at all; and in her air altogether there is a self-sufficiency without fashion, which is intolerable. The servant who had first entered had thrown up the window, or it would have been even more intolerable.

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   How has life become intolerable?

   • The situation has become intolerable. The constant fighting made life at home intolerable. Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable. Living conditions were intolerable after the storm. This hot weather is becoming intolerable. It's unbearable and it needs to become intolerable.

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   too bad or unpleasant to deal with or accept: The situation has become intolerable. The constant fighting made life at home intolerable. Three-quarters of the world's population live in conditions that people in the West would find intolerable. Synonyms. unbearable. unendurable formal. Opposite. tolerable.

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     too bad or unpleasant to deal with or accept: The situation...

   • Znaczenie Intolerable, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary

     INTOLERABLE definicja: 1. too bad or unpleasant to deal with...

   • Intolerable in Russian

     INTOLERABLE translate: невыносимый . Learn more in the...

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     INTOLERABLE translate: 無法容忍的，不能接受的. Learn more in the...

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     INTOLERABLE translate: 无法容忍的，不能接受的. Learn more in the...

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   If something is impossible to put up with, you can say it is intolerable. It would be intolerable if your neighbors played their terrible, loud music all night long. Intolerable, tolerable, tolerate, tolerant, and even extol all share the same Latin root word tolerare, which means to bear.

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   Intolerable means too bad or unpleasant to deal with or accept. Learn how to use this adjective in different contexts, see synonyms and antonyms, and explore translations in other languages.

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   Intolerable definition: not tolerable; unendurable; insufferable. See examples of INTOLERABLE used in a sentence.

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   Intolerable means so bad or extreme that no one can bear it or tolerate it. Learn the synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation, collocations and usage of intolerable with examples from The Guardian and other sources.

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