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Word Meanings - INTOLERABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden. His insolence is more intolerable Than all

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1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden. His insolence is more intolerable Than all the princes in the land beside. Shak. 4. Enormous. This intolerable deal of sack. Shak. -- In*tol"er*a*ble*ness, n. -- In*tol"er*a*bly, adv.

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  • DEFORMER
    One who deforms.
  • DEFORMATION
    1. The act of deforming, or state of anything deformed. Bp. Hall. 2. Transformation; change of shape.
  • INSUPPORTABLE
    Incapable of being supported or borne; unendurable; insufferable; intolerable; as, insupportable burdens; insupportable pain. -- In`sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`sup*port"a*bly, adv.
  • ABNORMAL
    Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. "That deviating from the type; anomalous; irregular. " Froude.
  • MONSTROUS
    1. Marvelous; strange. 2. Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth. Locke. He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love ... is unnatural
  • DEFORMITY
    deformis: cf. OF. deformeté, deformité, F. difformité. See Deform, v. 1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or features; ugliness. To make an
  • PRODIGIOUSNESS
    The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.
  • PRODIGIOUSLY
    1. Enormously; wonderfully; astonishingly; as, prodigiously great. 2. Very much; extremely; as, he was prodigiously pleased. Pope.
  • HIDEOUS
    hisdous, F. hideux: cf. OF. hide, hisde, fright; of uncertain origin; cf. OHG. egidi horror, or L. hispidosus, for hispidus rough, bristly, 1. Frightful, shocking, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks.
  • PREPOSTEROUS
    1. Having that first which ought to be last; inverted in order. The method I take may be censured as preposterous, because I thus treat last of the antediluvian earth, which was first in the order of nature. Woodward. 2. Contrary to nature
  • IMPERMISSIBLE
    Not permissible.
  • DEFORM
    1. To spoil the form of; to mar in form; to misshape; to disfigure. Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world. Shak. 2. To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above
  • ABNORMALLY
    In an abnormal manner; irregularly. Darwin.
  • PORTENTOUS
    1. Of the nature of a portent; containing portents; foreschadowing, esp. foreschadowing ill; ominous. For, I believe, they are portentous things. Shak. Victories of strange and almost portentous splendor. Macaulay. 2. Hence: Monstrous; prodigious;
  • INSUFFERABLE
    1. Incapable of being suffered, borne, or endured; insupportable; unendurable; intolerable; as, insufferable heat, cold, or pain; insufferable wrongs. Locke. 2. Offensive beyond endurance; detestable. A multitude of scribblers who daily pester
  • ABNORMALITY
    1. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin. 2. Something abnormal.
  • MONSTROUSLY
    In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked. "Who with his wife is monstrously in love." Dryden.
  • PRODIGIOUS
    1. Of the nature of a prodigy; marvelous; wonderful; portentous. Spenser. It is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky. Sir T. Browne. 2. Extraordinary in bulk, extent, quantity, or degree; very great; vast; huge; immense; as, a prodigious
  • INTOLERABLE
    1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured; not proper or right to be allowed; insufferable; insupportable; unbearable; as, intolerable pain; intolerable heat or cold; an intolerable burden. His insolence is more intolerable Than all
  • DEFORMED
    Unnatural or distorted in form; having a deformity; misshapen; disfigured; as, a deformed person; a deformed head. -- De*form"ed*ly, adv. -- De*form"ed*ness, n.
  • ORCHIDEOUS
    See ORCHIDACEOUS

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