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in-TOL-uh-r-uh-nt/ɪnˈtɒlərənt/

Intolerant means not willing to accept behaviour, beliefs, or people you disagree with; also unable to take a food or drug: intolerant of dissent, lactose-intolerant. Tolerant sits opposite; clarity is a caption, not a dropped cohort.

Meaning

Not willing to accept behaviour, beliefs, or people you disagree with; also unable to take a food or drug.

Examples

• “An intolerant cut of the night cohort from the n is a methods choice, not “clarity”.”
• “Bigoted is hotter. Allergic is the medical twin. Clarity is a slogan. A cohort is a slice. Name the exclusion, or put the nights back.”

Good to know

Unwilling to accept difference (also: physically unable to tolerate). Opposite: tolerant. “Clarity” ≠ a dropped cohort.

Near in meaning

bigoted

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