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INTOLERANT
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Narrow-minded about cherished opinions
Synonyms:
illiberal; intolerant
Classified under:
Similar:
narrow; narrow-minded (lacking tolerance or flexibility or breadth of view)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
Classified under:
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)
Context examples:
He threw back his head, and there he stood in the golden glow with all his old Assyrian luxuriance of beard, all his native insolence of drooping eyelids and intolerant eyes.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
