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Intolerable

//ɪnˈtɑləɹəbl̩// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured.
  2. 2
    Extremely offensive or insulting.

    "It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating."

  3. 3
    Extremely worn and degraded, to the point of being unsafe.

    "o take apart an ageing nuclear facility, you have to put a lot of other things together first. New technologies, for instance, and new buildings to replace the intolerable ones, and new reserves of money."

Adjective
  1. 1
    incapable of being tolerated or endured wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English intolerable, borrowed from Middle French intolerable, from Latin intolerābilis. By surface analysis, in- + tolerable.

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