INTOLERANT Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

intolerant

adjective

(ˌ)in-ˈtä-lə-rənt

Definition of intolerant

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 Conservative pundits and websites have amplified MLB's initial statement and called the league intolerant, bigoted and divisive. — Armando Salguero Outkick, FOXNews.com, 16 June 2026 During our May Monthly Meeting on Wednesday, Jim Cramer said that Meta’s 2026 performance is shocking because Zuckerberg is known to be intolerant of underperformance. — Zev Fima, CNBC, 28 May 2026 Up to 75% of the world’s population is intolerant to lactose. — Jillian Kubala, Health, 14 May 2026 How to manage a susceptible, intolerant rose Roses that are both susceptible and intolerant to disease despite proper care should be shovel-pruned and replaced with cultivars that thrive with little or no disease. — Rita Perwich, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for intolerant

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In a later conversation in that same episode, the women’s roles are switched — Rhaenyra is no longer the impatient interrogator but an aggrieved ruler who has no idea how to govern; Alicent is the soothing confidant offering wisdom to welcome ears.

— Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 10 Aug. 2026
But Hilton had grown impatient as his radical vision for Cameron’s UK — decentralizing power, slashing the civil service — succumbed to political realities.

— Ben Paviour, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of impatient

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The league is clearly consumed by athletes with bigoted, demeaning views of white women.

— Bobby Burack OutKick, FOXNews.com, 10 Aug. 2026
His fortunes started to change in his mid-50s, when he was cast in the 2008, off-Broadway revival of Sarah Kane’s audacious Blasted, as a bigoted and predatory tabloid writer.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 22 July 2026

Definition of bigoted

Adjective

Totality — when the sun is completely obscured — is only visible within the narrow path of the moon's shadow.

— Daisy Dobrijevic, Space.com, 10 Aug. 2026
The part east of West Broadway that bleeds into the grit of the Financial District, the skyscrapers so tall and the streets so narrow that sunlight doesn’t reach much at all.

— Elise Taylor, Vanity Fair, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of narrow

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Several residents who spoke at the meetings characterized the opposition as a vocal minority of residents who have fixated on a few mostly parochial issues.

— John Moritz, Hartford Courant, 1 Aug. 2026
All but one, Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, were either parochial or had some religious affiliation.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 25 July 2026

Definition of parochial

Adjective

The national police service did not give more details on the circumstances of the deaths, but said the provincial police commissioner was on the way to the mine.

— ABC News, ABC News, 11 Aug. 2026
Choco Governor Nubia Carolina Cordoba-Curi said there were injuries and significant damage in Quibdo, the provincial capital, and warned residents about aftershocks.

— Nelson Bocanegra, USA Today, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of provincial

Adjective

In the past, fashion and art institutions have struggled to properly reflect their subjects’ prejudiced pasts.

— Zoe Sottile, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2026
The balls provided a rare opportunity for competitors to express themselves outside of the confines of a prejudiced society and later offered education and testing as the community battled HIV/AIDS.

— Caitlin Huston, HollywoodReporter, 11 May 2026

Definition of prejudiced

Adjective

There was an equal and opposite reaction from far-right Americans and Europeans, some of whom had flocked to Budapest in recent years, treating it as an illiberal city on a hill, and a source of government largesse.

— Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 9 May 2026
The prominence of Hasan Piker, an apologist for terrorism and a proponent of authoritarian regimes, has revealed a much broader comfort on the left with illiberal ideas and violent methods.

— Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026

Definition of illiberal

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