different between intolerable vs revolting

English

Alternative forms

• untolerable (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle French intolerable, from Latin intoler?bilis. Synchronically, in- +? tolerable.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?t?l???bl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?t?l???bl?/
• Hyphenation: in?tol?er?able

Adjective

intolerable (comparative more intolerable, superlative most intolerable)

1. not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured

   Synonyms: insufferable, insupportable, unbearable

2. extremely offensive or insulting.
   • 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 4

     It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating.

Usage notes

• Nouns to which "intolerable" is often applied: cruelty, burden, situation, condition, pain, heat, position, life, state, suffering, evil, risk, insult, hardship, agony, behavior, affront, insolence, stress, consequence, people.

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Translations

References

• intolerable in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• intolerable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin intoler?bilis. Synchronically, in- +? tolerable.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /in.to.l???a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /in.tu.l???a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /in.to.le??a.ble/

Adjective

intolerable (masculine and feminine plural intolerables)

1. intolerable

   Synonym: insuportable

   Antonym: tolerable

Derived terms

• intolerablement

Related terms

• intolerabilitat

Further reading

• “intolerable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “intolerable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “intolerable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “intolerable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin intoler?bilis. Synchronically, in- +? tolerable.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /intole??able/, [?n?.t?o.le??a.??le]

Adjective

intolerable (plural intolerables)

1. intolerable

   Synonym: insoportable

   Antonym: tolerable

Related terms

• intolerabilidad

Further reading

• “intolerable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -??lt??

Verb

revolting

1. present participle of revolt

   The peasants are revolting!

Noun

revolting (countable and uncountable, plural revoltings)

1. revolution (The action of the verb to revolt)
   • 1837, The American Biblical Repository (volume 9, page 316)

     Yet revoltings of the soul would attend this violence to nature, this abuse of physical and intellectual energy, while the beauty of social order would be defaced, and the fountains of earth's felicity broken up.

Adjective

revolting (comparative more revolting, superlative most revolting)

1. repulsive, disgusting

   The most revolting smell was coming from the drains.

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