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intolerable adjective [ ɪnˈtɒl(ə)rəb(ə)l ]

• unable to be endured.
• "the intolerable pressures of his work"
Similar: unbearable, insufferable, unsupportable, insupportable, unendurable, beyond endurance, unacceptable, impossible, too much to bear, past bearing, not to be borne, overpowering, too much,
Opposite: bearable, tolerable,
Origin: late Middle English: from Old French, or from Latin intolerabilis, from in- ‘not’ + tolerabilis (see tolerable).


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