different between intolerant vs reactionary

English

Etymology

From French intolérant.

Pronunciation

Adjective

intolerant (comparative more intolerant, superlative most intolerant)

1. Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.

   I am lactose-intolerant, so I can't drink milk.

   • 1892, Harry Marshall Ward, The Oak: A Popular Introduction to Forest-botany

     The oak, as is well known, is a slow-growing, dicotyledonous tree of peculiar spreading habit, and very intolerant of shade.
2. Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas; indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.

Related terms

• intolerance
• intolerantly
• intolerate
• intoleration
• tolerance
• tolerant

Translations

Noun

intolerant (plural intolerants)

1. One who is intolerant; a bigot.

References

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin intolerans.

Adjective

intolerant (masculine and feminine plural intolerants)

1. intolerant

   Antonym: tolerant

Derived terms

• intolerantment

Related terms

• intolerància

Further reading

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

German

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ant

Adjective

intolerant (comparative intoleranter, superlative am intolerantesten)

1. intolerant

Declension

Further reading

• “intolerant” in Duden online

Romanian

Etymology

From French intolérant.

Adjective

intolerant m or n (feminine singular intolerant?, masculine plural intoleran?i, feminine and neuter plural intolerante)

1. intolerant

Declension

English

Etymology

From French réactionnaire. Used in the time of the French revolution to refer to a person opposing the revolution; as in a person favoring a reaction to the revolution. First known usage in English in a translation of Lazare Carnot's letter on the Conspiracy of the 18th Fructidor published in London, 1799.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?i?æk??n(?)?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?i?æk???n??i/
• Hyphenation: re?ac?tion?ary
• Rhymes: -æri

Adjective

reactionary (comparative more reactionary, superlative most reactionary)

1. Politically favoring a return to a golden age of the past.
2. (chemistry) Of, pertaining to, participating in or inducing a chemical reaction.
   • 2013, Brandon Smith, Are Individuals The Property Of The Collective?

     Psychiatry extends the theory into biology in the belief that all human behavior is nothing more than a series of reactionary chemical processes in the brain that determine pre-coded genetic responses built up from the conditioning of one’s environment.

3. In reaction to, as a result of.

Antonyms

• nonreactionary

Translations

Noun

reactionary (plural reactionaries)

1. One who is opposed to change and wants to reverse it.
2. One who is very conservative.

Translations

Further reading

• "reactionary" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 256.
• reactionary on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

References

Anagrams

• creationary