INTOLERANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intolerant mean? 

• INTOLERANT (adjective)
  The adjective INTOLERANT has 2 senses:

1. unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion

2. narrow-minded about cherished opinions

  Familiarity information: INTOLERANT used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTOLERANT (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion

Similar:

bigoted (blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others)

rigid; strict (incapable of compromise or flexibility)

Also:

uncharitable (lacking love and generosity)

Antonym:

tolerant (showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others)

Derivation:

intolerance (unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Narrow-minded about cherished opinions

Synonyms:

illiberal; intolerant

Similar:

narrow; narrow-minded (lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view)

 Context examples 

And is this, she added, looking at her visitor with the proud intolerant air with which she had begun, no injury?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

My uncle laughed, and Brummell looked me up and down with his large, intolerant eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was Challenger, with his smile of condescension, his drooping eyelids, his intolerant eyes, his aggressive beard, his huge chest, swelling and puffing as he laid down the law to Summerlee.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

PCSK9 inhibiting medicine is already available on the market, but due to high costs it is only offered to patients who are particularly at risk, as well as those who do not have benefit from or are intolerant to statins.

(Discovery Can Pave the Way for More Effective Cholesterol Medicine, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Although this class of agents is also used in diabetic nephropathy (kidney damage due to diabetes) and congestive heart failure, it is primarily used for the treatment of hypertension in cases where the patient is intolerant of ACE inhibitor therapy.

(Angiotensin II Receptor Antagonist, NCI Thesaurus)

I had a last impression of red cheeks, blue rippling beard, and intolerant eyes, as he waved me out of the room.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An angry flush overspread her features; and she said, in an intolerant manner, grasping the arm-chair tightly with her hands: What compensation can you make to ME for opening such a pit between me and my son?

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He held out his sacred snuff-box to me as he spoke, as a solemn pledge of his goodwill, and, as I look back at him, there is no moment at which I see him more plainly than that with the old mischievous light dancing once more in his large intolerant eyes, one thumb in the armpit of his vest, and the little shining box held out upon his snow-white palm.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"I am much indebted to you for your gracious permission," said the angry Professor; for never was a man so intolerant of every form of authority.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was heart-weary of this empty life, for which I was so ill-fashioned, and weary also of that intolerant talk which would make a coterie of frivolous women and foolish fops the central point of the universe.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)