Intolerant

Origin

From French intolérant

Full definition of intolerant

Adjective

1. Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.I am lactose-intolerant, so I can't drink milk.
• ArbuthnotThe powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.
2. Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas. indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.

Related terms

• intolerance
• intolerantly
• intolerate
• intoleration
• tolerance
• tolerant

Noun

1. One who is intolerant; a bigot.
• 1856, John David Chambers, Strictures, legal and historical, on the judgment of the Consistory Court of London, in December, 1855, in the Case of Westerton Versus Liddell... a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants, might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.