INTOLERANTとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈtɑləɹənt/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈtɒləɹənt/
• ハイフネーション: in‧tol‧er‧ant

形容詞

intolerant (comparative more intolerant, superlative most intolerant)

1. Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear. [from 1733]
2. (medicine, often postpositive) Unable to digest food or be given substances of a certain composition without adverse effects. [with of (more common) or to] [from the 20th c.]

   Near-synonym: allergic

   I am intolerant of lactose, so I can't drink milk

   I am lactose-intolerant, so I can't drink milk.

   • 2013, Sarah Taylor, Vegetarian to Vegan: Give Up Dairy, Give Up Eggs for Good:

     When our bodies no longer create the enzyme needed to break down lactose, we can become intolerant to it.

   • 1892, Harry Marshall Ward, The Oak: A Popular Introduction to Forest-botany:

     The oak, as is well known, is a slow-growing, dicotyledonous tree of peculiar spreading habit, and very intolerant of shade.

   • 1751, John Arbuthnot, An Essay Concerning the Effects of Air on Human Bodies:

     The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.

3. 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. [from 1765]

   Synonym: bigoted

   • 1769, A collection of original papers relative to the History of the colony of Maſſachusets-bay‎, Boston, New England: Thomas and John Fleet, page 399:

     Whilſt Congregationaliſts in England were complaining of the intolerant ſpirit of Epiſcopalians there

   • 1778, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2nd edition, volume II, Edinburgh, page 1406:

     They ſhewed their intolerant ſpirit by demanding a ſtrict execution of the penal laws againſt Catholics

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名詞

intolerant (plural intolerants)

1. One who is intolerant; a bigot.
   • 1856, John David Chambers, Strictures, legal and historical, on the judgment of the Consistory Court of London, in December, 1855, in the Case of Westerton Versus Liddell:

     […] a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants, might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.

参照

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “intolerant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “intolerant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.