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語源

Inherited from 中期英語 intolerable, borrowed from Middle French intolerable, from Latin intolerābilis. By surface analysis, in- +‎ tolerable.

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ɪnˈtɑləɹəbl̩/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪnˈtɒləɹəbl̩/
• ハイフネーション: in‧tol‧er‧able

形容詞

intolerable (comparative more intolerable, superlative most intolerable)

1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured. [from the 15th c.]

   Synonyms: insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unsittable

   • 2026 September 3, James Gregory, “More than 80 migrants feared dead after boat rescued off Canary Islands”, in BBC News‎, retrieved 3 September 2026:

     Fernando Clavijo, head of the Canary Islands government, posted on X: "It is intolerable that lives continue to be lost. The Canaries cannot get used to or accept as normal the fact that the Atlantic continues to be a death trap."

2. Extremely offensive or insulting.
   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 4:

     It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating.

   • 2019 May 28, Jack Guy and Antonia Mortensen, “Germans urged to wear Jewish skullcap ahead of anti-Israel protests”, in CNN‎:

     “I call on all citizens of Berlin and across Germany to wear the yarmulke (as the skullcap is known in Yiddish) next Saturday if there are new, intolerable attacks targeting Israel and Jews on the occasion of Al-Quds Day in Berlin,” said Felix Klein in a statement.

3. (nuclear power) Extremely worn and degraded, to the point of being unsafe.
   • 2022 December 15, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian‎:

     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.

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参照

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “intolerable”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “intolerable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.