intolerable

形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ɪnˈtɒləɹəbl̩/    美 /ɪnˈtɑləɹəbl̩/

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured.
  2. Extremely offensive or insulting.
    — It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating.
  3. Extremely worn and degraded, to the point of being unsafe.
    — o take apart an ageing nuclear facility, you have to put a lot of other things together first. New technologies, for instance, and new buildings to replace the intolerable ones, and new reserves of money.

词形变化

more intolerable comparative most intolerable superlative untolerable alternative,obsolete

词汇关系

衍生词
intolerability intolerableness intolerably

词源

Inherited from Middle English intolerable, borrowed from Middle French intolerable, from Latin intolerābilis. By surface analysis, in- + tolerable.
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