untolerable
untolerable is the obsolete form of intolerable.
Meaning of intolerable
Adjective
intolerable (comparative more intolerable, superlative most intolerable)
- Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured.
- Synonyms:
- insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unsittable
- 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
- 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 untolerable
| comparative | more untolerable |
|---|---|
| superlative | most untolerable |
Origin of untolerable
From un- + tolerable.
Words formed from untolerable
Questions about untolerable
- What is untolerable the obsolete form of?
- Untolerable is the obsolete form of intolerable.
Words near untolerable in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: untolerable (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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