Intolerant means refusing to accept views or people unlike your own. Intolerant of dissent, religiously intolerant, deeply intolerant.
It takes of. It is a serious criticism about people and a plain description in medicine, where lactose intolerant means the body cannot process something — and that use has spread so far that intolerant now often means allergic in everyday speech. Note intolerance; and the paradox of tolerance, the argument that a tolerant society cannot tolerate the intolerant without ending.
1adjectiveintolerantRefusing to accept views or people unlike your own.
“The village was intolerant of outsiders and of anyone who dressed differently.”
2adjectiveunableUnable to process a food or substance.
“Roughly two in three adults are lactose intolerant.”
intolerant is a quality of refusing acceptance.
Latin intolerans is in- plus tolerans, from tolerare, to bear. Tolerate, toleration and the English thole, to endure, come from the same bearing.
Latin
intolerāns
French
intolérant
English, today
intolerant
first half of the 18th century; either French intolérant or from its source, Latin intolerāns. by surface analysis, in- + tolerant.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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