intolerable

adjective more intolerable · most intolerable · untolerable

1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured. Fernando Clavijo, head of the Canary Islands government, posted on X: "It is intolerable that lives continue to be lost. The Canaries cannot get used to or accept as normal the fact that the Atlantic continues to be a death trap."

   Similar: insufferable, insupportable, unbearable, unsittable

2. Extremely offensive or insulting. It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating.
3. Extremely worn and degraded, to the point of being unsafe. o take apart an ageing nuclear facility, you have to put a lot of other things together first. New technologies, for instance, and new buildings to replace the intolerable ones, and new reserves of money.