INTOLERABLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intolerably mean? 

• INTOLERABLY (adverb)
  The adverb INTOLERABLY has 1 sense:

1. to an unacceptable degree

  Familiarity information: INTOLERABLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTOLERABLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

To an unacceptable degree

Synonyms:

intolerably; unacceptably

Context example:

The percentage of lead in our drinking water is unacceptably high

Antonym:

tolerably (in an acceptable (but not outstanding) manner)

Pertainym:

tolerable (capable of being borne or endured)

 Context examples 

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

My wrists and arms ached intolerably, and though I had eaten heartily of a twelve-o’clock lunch, I had worked so hard that I was faint from hunger.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Life was intolerably dull and stupid, and its taste was bad in his mouth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

True, generous feeling is made small account of by some, but here were two natures rendered, the one intolerably acrid, the other despicably savourless for the want of it.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I answered that our horses were trained up, from three or four years old, to the several uses we intended them for; that if any of them proved intolerably vicious, they were employed for carriages; that they were severely beaten, while they were young, for any mischievous tricks; that the males, designed for the common use of riding or draught, were generally castrated about two years after their birth, to take down their spirits, and make them more tame and gentle; that they were indeed sensible of rewards and punishments; but his honour would please to consider, that they had not the least tincture of reason, any more than the Yahoos in this country.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

And now, Henry, said Miss Tilney, that you have made us understand each other, you may as well make Miss Morland understand yourself—unless you mean to have her think you intolerably rude to your sister, and a great brute in your opinion of women in general.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It hurt intolerably.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)