intolerable

1. 1.

   incapable of being tolerated or endured

   “an intolerable degree of sentimentality”

   Synonymsunbearableunendurable

   Antonymstolerable

   Similarbitterinsufferableimpossibleunsupportable

Questions about intolerable

What does intolerable mean?

intolerable means "incapable of being tolerated or endured".

How many syllables are in intolerable?

intolerable has 5 syllables: in-to-le-ra-ble. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈtɑlɚəbəl/.

What is another word for intolerable?

Close synonyms include unbearable, unendurable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of intolerable?

The recorded antonyms are tolerable.

Is intolerable a common word?

intolerable is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with intolerable?

1 word rhymes with intolerable. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.