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intollerable

intollerable is the misspelling of intolerable.

Meaning of intolerable

Adjective

intolerable (comparative more intolerable, superlative most intolerable)

  1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured.
  2. Extremely offensive or insulting.
    • It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating.1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 4
  3. (nuclear power) 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.2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian

Forms of intollerable

comparativemore intollerable
superlativemost intollerable

Questions about intollerable

What is intollerable the misspelling of?
Intollerable is the misspelling of intolerable.

Words near intollerable in the dictionary

  1. intolerated
  2. intolerating
  3. intoleration
  4. intolerator
  5. intolerators
  6. intollerable
  7. intomb
  8. intombed
  9. intombing
  10. intombment
  11. intombs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intollerable (page history and authors); intolerable (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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