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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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
When the people at the age and in the places that are supposed to be the most open to different ways of thinking are increasingly brittle and intolerant, the implications for the larger society bode ill.
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
The military that took over Burkina Faso in a 2022 coup has grown increasingly intolerant of dissent amid worsening Islamist militant violence in the West African country.
—CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
The Slow Burn of Modern Taste Low-caf is not just a compromise for caffeine-intolerant souls.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
What the study found was that fire tolerant trees, those that regenerated with fire, have been replaced over time by fire intolerant trees that just burn.
—Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Chris Stirewalt, The Hill, 16 Sep. 2025
The military that took over Burkina Faso in a 2022 coup has grown increasingly intolerant of dissent amid worsening Islamist militant violence in the West African country.
—CNN Money, 2 Sep. 2025
The Slow Burn of Modern Taste Low-caf is not just a compromise for caffeine-intolerant souls.
—Lyssanoel Frater, USA Today, 28 Aug. 2025
What the study found was that fire tolerant trees, those that regenerated with fire, have been replaced over time by fire intolerant trees that just burn.
—Andrew Montequin, jsonline.com, 19 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for intolerant
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The viral video shared on Instagram last Sunday under the username @hammyandolivia, shows the 18-month-old Pembroke Welsh corgi, Fiona, running toward her best friend, dragging her owner on the leash, impatient to give the Alaskan Malamute a proper greeting.—
Maria Azzurra Volpe,
MSNBC Newsweek,
31 Oct. 2025
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When Boulez became impatient, Dohnányi smiled broadly.—
Alex Ross,
New Yorker,
21 Oct. 2025
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Just a few months ago, Carlson himself likened Fuentes to David Duke, the former Ku Klux Klan leader, and accused Fuentes of being part of a campaign to say the most bigoted things possible to make the rest of the right look bad.—
Ali Breland,
The Atlantic,
31 Oct. 2025
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Another student, who identified herself as Hispanic, claimed Kirk held bigoted views towards Hispanics.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
30 Oct. 2025
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One was needed with a narrow temperature range; in Helm’s case, inglorious British maritime.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Nov. 2025
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Its cities have narrow and twisting streets.—
Jamie L. LaReau,
USA Today,
2 Nov. 2025
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The move likely seeks to rein in parochial infighting between military branches, which compete for congressional funding every year despite Hegseth and the White House officially controlling the process.—
Davis Winkie,
USA Today,
21 Oct. 2025
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The disagreement is colored by Maine’s parochial politics.—
Philip Elliott,
Time,
21 Oct. 2025
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His first business ventures were reportedly an internet café and gaming centers in the provincial capital Fuzhou.—
Helen Regan,
CNN Money,
25 Oct. 2025
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The spot, paid for by the Ontario provincial government and not the Canadian federal government, features the voice of former President Ronald Reagan, speaking during a radio address on April 25, 1987.—
Michael Collins,
USA Today,
25 Oct. 2025
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During her June conversation withT Magazine, Copeland remarked on the prejudiced stereotypes that once kept Black dancers off of the most prestigious stages in the world.—
Madison E. Goldberg,
PEOPLE,
23 Oct. 2025
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Mistura Director: Ricardo de Montreuil; Country: Peru | Running Time: 97 minutes A prejudiced woman’s life unravels after her husband leaves her.—
Matthew Carey,
Deadline,
13 Oct. 2025
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French sometimes points out, accurately but not germanely, that the British had been illiberal, too.—
Kelefa Sanneh,
New Yorker,
6 Oct. 2025
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Nowhere has the strength of Brazil’s judiciary been more evident than in the courts’ bold confrontation of Bolsonaro and his illiberal agenda.—
Omar G. Encarnación,
Foreign Affairs,
29 Sep. 2025
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Anyone proposing to offer a master class on changing the world for the better, without becoming negative, cynical, angry or narrow-minded in the process, could model their advice on the life and work of pioneering animal behavior scholar Jane Goodall.—
Preston Fore,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 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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“Intolerant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/intolerant. Accessed 8 Nov. 2025.
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