Dictionary entry

Intolerable

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐tol″er‐a‐ble (?), a. [F. intolérable, L. intolerabilis. See In- not, and Tolerable.]

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.

4. Enormous.

This intolerable deal of sack. Shak.

— In‐tol″er‐a‐ble‐ness, n. — In‐tol″er‐a‐bly, adv.