intolerable

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: in=tol=er=a=ble

CIDE DICTIONARY

intolerable, a. [F. intolérable, L. intolerabilis. See In- not, and Tolerable.].

•  Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.  [1913 Webster]

  "His insolence is more intolerable
  Than all the princes in the land beside."  [1913 Webster]
•  Enormous.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

intolerable, adj. that cannot be endured.

Derivative

intolerableness n. intolerably adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF intolerable or L intolerabilis (as IN-(1), TOLERABLE)

THESAURUS

intolerable

a bit much, abhorrent, absolute, arrant, classical, complete, consummate, crass, decided, definitive, dislikable, displeasing, distasteful, downright, egregious, exceptionable, flagrant, glaring, gross, impossible, inadmissible, indefensible, insufferable, insupportable, mislikable, objectionable, odious, out-and-out, outright, past bearing, perfect, positive, precious, profound, pronounced, proper, rank, regular, shattering, shocking, stark, stark-staring, superlative, surpassing, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, too much, total, unacceptable, unbearable, uncongenial, unconscionable, undeniable, undesirable, unendurable, unequivocal, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable, unmitigated, unpleasant, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, unsuitable, unsupportable, untenable, utter

ROGET THESAURUS

intolerable

Painfulness

N painfulness, trouble, care, trial, affliction, infliction, blow, stroke, burden, load, curse, bitter pill, bitter draught, waters of bitterness, annoyance, grievance, nuisance, vexation, mortification, sickener, bore, bother, pother, hot water, sea of troubles, hornet's nest, plague, pest, cancer, ulcer, sting, thorn, canker, scorpion, dagger, scourge, carking care, canker worm of care, mishap, misfortune, desagrement, esclandre, rub, source of irritation, source of annoyance, wound, open sore, sore subject, skeleton in the closet, thorn in the flesh, thorn in one's side, where the shoe pinches, gall and wormwood, sorry sight, heavy news, provocation, affront, head and front of one's offending, infestation, molestation, malignity, causing pain, hurting, hurtful, painful, dolorific, dolorous, unpleasant, unpleasing, displeasing, disagreeable, unpalatable, bitter, distasteful, uninviting, unwelcome, undesirable, undesired, obnoxious, unacceptable, unpopular, thankless, unsatisfactory, untoward, unlucky, uncomfortable, distressing, afflicting, afflictive, joyless, cheerless, comfortless, dismal, disheartening, depressing, depressive, dreary, melancholy, grievous, piteous, woeful, rueful, mournful, deplorable, pitiable, lamentable, sad, affecting, touching, pathetic, irritating, provoking, stinging, annoying, aggravating, mortifying, galling, unaccommodating, invidious, vexatious, troublesome, tiresome, irksome, wearisome, plaguing, plaguy, awkward, importunate, teasing, pestering, bothering, harassing, worrying, tormenting, carking, intolerable, insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unendurable, past bearing, not to be borne, not to be endured, more than flesh and blood can bear, enough to drive one mad, enough to provoke a saint, enough to make a parson swear, enough to gag a maggot, shocking, terrific, grim, appalling, crushing, dreadful, fearful, frightful, thrilling, tremendous, dire, heart-breaking, heart-rending, heart-wounding, heart-corroding, heart-sickening, harrowing, rending, odious, hateful, execrable, repulsive, repellent, abhorrent, horrid, horrible, horrific, horrifying, offensive, nauseous, nauseating, disgusting, sickening, revolting, nasty, loathsome, loathful, fulsome, vile, hideous, sharp, acute, sore, severe, grave, hard, harsh, cruel, biting, caustic, cutting, corroding, consuming, racking, excruciating, searching, grinding, grating, agonizing, envenomed, catheretic, pyrotic, ruinous, disastrous, calamitous, tragical, desolating, withering, burdensome, onerous, oppressive, cumbrous, cumbersome, painfully, with pain, deuced, Int, hinc illae lachrymae!, surgit amari aliquid, the place being too hot to hold one, the iron entering into the soul, he jests at scars that never felt a wound, I must be cruel only to be kind, what deep wounds ever closed without a scar?.