intolerantadjective
uk/ɪnˈtɒl.ər.ənt/us/ɪnˈtɑː.lɚ.ənt/disapprovingC2 disapproving of or refusing to accept ideas or ways of behaving that are different from your own:
She can be very intolerant of students who don't understand what she's talking about.
used, usually in compounds, to describe a person who is not able to eat a particular type of food or take a particular type of medicine without it having a bad effect:
Recent studies show that many people who think they are suffering from bowel disease might in fact be lactose-intolerant.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Narrow-minded
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinders idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinker
- blinkered
- hidebound
- insular
- intolerance
- myopic
- narrow-minded
- parochial
- petty
- prim
- prissy
- set
- short-sighted
- strait-laced
- unreconstructed
- unthinking
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intolerantly
adverb uk/ɪnˈtɒl.ər.ənt.li/us/ɪnˈtɑː.lɚ.ənt.li/