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Definition of Intolerant
1. Adjective. Unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion.
2. Adjective. Narrow-minded about cherished opinions.
Definition of Intolerant
1. a. Not enduring; not able to endure.
2. n. An intolerant person; a bigot.
Definition of Intolerant
1. Adjective. Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear. ¹
2. Adjective. Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas. indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent. ¹
3. Noun. One who is intolerant; a bigot. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Intolerant
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Intolerant
1. Unable to take a drug because of an adverse reaction (side effect). (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intolerant
Literary usage of Intolerant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Institutes of the Law of Nations: A Treatise of the Jural Relations of by James Lorimer (1883)
"Of intolerant Anarchies. When a State, by losing control over its citizens, falls
into anarchy it ceases to be a State, and the presence or absence of ..."
2. The Theory of Toleration Under the Later Stuarts by Alexander Adam Seaton (1911)
"So the spirit of the age has tended at times to translate the intolerant ...
But, be the shadow larger or smaller, the intolerant disposition is still there ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1861)
"... had not some of his opponents been of so intolerant u spirit that nothing less
than the interference of ecclesiastical authority could satisfy their ..."
4. Mark Hanna's "moral Cranks" And--others: A Study of To-day by William H. Muldoon (1900)
"Professors Bemis, Parsons, Ward, Commons and Herron alleged " Victims of intolerant
Capital"—Removals from college chairs regarded as giving a fresh impetus ..."
5. The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to by Henry Hallam (1849)
"Thore wns a bad spirit abroad in the Church, ambitious, factious, intolerant,
calumnious; but this was not necessarily partaken by all its members, ..."
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