I. (ˈ)in., ən.+ adjective
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin intolerabilis, from in- in- (I) + tolerabilis tolerable
1. : not tolerable : not capable of being borne or endured : unbearable
intolerable pain
intolerable anguish
an intolerable burden
an almost intolerable beauty — Bernard DeVoto
2. archaic : not to be withstood : irresistible
3. : extreme , excessive
sometimes gives way to an intolerable degree of sentimentality over some of his women — C.H.Sykes
scarcely to have made an impression upon the intolerable multitude of volumes which everyone is supposed to have read — Arnold Bennett
an intolerable amount of airless inner space — Lewis Mumford
• in·tolerableness “+ noun
• in·tolerably “+ adverb
II. adverb
: intolerably