1
as in impatient
unable or unwilling to endure
intolerant of fools, she is not an easy person to work for
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2
as in bigoted
unwilling to grant other people social rights or to accept other viewpoints
intolerant people who callously deny others the very rights that they take for granted
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Recent Examples of intolerant
Non-dairy milk alternatives, such as oat, soy, almond, rice, and cashew milk, are excellent options for individuals who wish to consume milk but are intolerant to lactose or other ingredients found in milk or lactose-free milk.
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Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2025
Of course, Williams would not deny that Black people still occasionally find themselves on the business end of an intolerant remark or suspicious glance; his own brother was violently assaulted by a police officer in his front yard.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Shasta daisies are intolerant of wet soil, which encourages crown and root rots that shorten the life of plants.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 July 2025
This silly holiday comedy features Sandler as both intolerant brother and odd-job twin sister (Jill) while everyone else looks on in horror.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 July 2025
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Angelica Bottaro, Verywell Health, 8 Aug. 2025
Of course, Williams would not deny that Black people still occasionally find themselves on the business end of an intolerant remark or suspicious glance; his own brother was violently assaulted by a police officer in his front yard.
—Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2025
Shasta daisies are intolerant of wet soil, which encourages crown and root rots that shorten the life of plants.
—Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 28 July 2025
This silly holiday comedy features Sandler as both intolerant brother and odd-job twin sister (Jill) while everyone else looks on in horror.
—Declan Gallagher, EW.com, 26 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerant
Adjective
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Our investor was obstinate, the seller was impatient, and my team was exhausted.—
Pankaj Vasani,
Forbes.com,
22 Aug. 2025
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Instead of taking turns, Luna hides every time, but becoming impatient, the seek part of the game is cut short.—
Liz O'Connell,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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But Target’s response frustrated supporters of gay and transgender rights, who said the company caved to bigoted pressure.—
Nathaniel Meyersohn,
CNN Money,
20 Aug. 2025
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Some were explicit, bigoted and violated xAI’s rules.—
Iain Martin,
Forbes.com,
20 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The financial leaders who struggle are typically those insisting on narrow specialization when their organizations need broader capabilities.—
Jack McCullough,
Forbes.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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But those authorities are narrower and limit how quickly and to what extent a president can act.—
Robert Birsel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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This week, in parochial and Christian schools across Chicago and the suburbs, schoolchildren filed into pews with their classmates to observe church services ahead of the school day.—
The Editorial Board,
Chicago Tribune,
27 Aug. 2025
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Funded by political parties and subscribers, such papers were thoroughly partisan and parochial.—
Krista Kafer,
Denver Post,
19 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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The trial also resulted in five other convictions of hospital and provincial health officials for concealment and omission-of-duty counts, the Buenos Aires Times and Chequeado reported.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
6 Sep. 2025
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Most of the injured were taken to Winnipeg’s Health Sciences Centre by air and land, a spokesperson for the provincial health organization Shared Health said in a statement to CNN.—
Michael Rios,
CNN Money,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Like almost every city in the South, Orlando was still struggling with its prejudiced past — damage that is still evident today in the city’s most impoverished neighborhoods, and in communities like Parramore where historic identity is threatened by dividing roads and gentrification.—
Orlando Sentinel Editorial Board,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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The co-defendants argued that keeping the trial in Nelson County would impede their rights to a fair and impartial trial because the publicity and news coverage the case has received could lead to a prejudiced jury pool.—
Killian Baarlaer,
The Courier-Journal,
2 July 2025
Adjective
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In recent years, however, the Russian literary market has taken a distinctly illiberal turn, exemplified by the writer Zakhar Prilepin, a best-selling author turned jingoistic patriot who fought in the Donbas region of Ukraine and inspired many of his admirers to join the front.—
Foreign Affairs,
Foreign Affairs,
19 Aug. 2025
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This is no longer a matter of liberal drift but an illiberal takeover—the Berkeley hippies who moved into faculty lounges decades ago would now be considered retrograde white supremacists—a structural crisis.—
Ilya Shapiro,
MSNBC Newsweek,
14 Aug. 2025
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The deficient vice of being open-minded is being narrow-minded.—
Mary Crossan,
Forbes.com,
30 Aug. 2025
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Knowledge-wise, science may be advancing, but, politically, its powers of persuasion are in retreat, in a moment defined, in many ways, by ignorance and narrow-minded grievance.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
29 Aug. 2025
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“Intolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerant. Accessed 7 Sep. 2025.
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