intolerable Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective incapable of being put up with
    unbearable; unendurable.
    • an intolerable degree of sentimentality

WordNet

In*tol"er*a*ble adjective
Etymology
F. intolérable, L. intolerabilis. See In- not, and Tolerable.
Definitions
  1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden.
    His insolence is more intolerable Than all the princes in the land beside. Shak.
  2. Enormous.
    This intolerable deal of sack. Shak.
    -- In*tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*tol"er*a*bly, adv.

Webster 1913