intolerant

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Adjective

intolerant

1. Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.

   I am lactose-intolerant, so I can't drink milk.

   • 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.

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.

Related terms

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

Translations

• French: intolérant
• German: unduldsam, intolerant
• Russian: нетерпи́мый
• Spanish: intolerante

Translations

• French: intolérant
• German: intolerant
• Russian: нетерпи́мый
• Spanish: intolerante

Noun

intolerant (plural intolerants)

1. One who is intolerant; a bigot.

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