Adjective: intolerant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more intolerant |
| Superlative | most intolerant |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: allergic
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I am intolerant of lactose, so I can't drink milk
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I am lactose-intolerant, so I can't drink milk.
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When our bodies no longer create the enzyme needed to break down lactose, we can become intolerant to it. [2013, Sarah Taylor, Vegetarian to Vegan: Give Up Dairy, Give Up Eggs for Good:]
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The oak, as is well known, is a slow-growing, dicotyledonous tree of peculiar spreading habit, and very intolerant of shade. [1892, Harry Marshall Ward, The Oak: A Popular Introduction to Forest-botany:]
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The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses. [1751, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:]
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Whilſt Congregationaliſts in England were complaining of the intolerant ſpirit of Epiſcopalians there [1769, A collection of original papers relative to the History of the colony of Maſſachusets-bay, Boston, New England: Thomas and John Fleet, page 399:]
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They ſhewed their intolerant ſpirit by demanding a ſtrict execution of the penal laws againſt Catholics [1778, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2nd edition, volume II, Edinburgh, page 1406:]
Adjectives inflected like intolerant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
First attested in the first half of the 18th century; either borrowed from French intolérant (early 17th century) or from its source, Latin intolerāns. By surface analysis, in- + tolerant (itself only attested from the 1780s). See: French Adjectives '
intolérant', Latin Adjectives '
intolerāns'.