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intollerabile

intolerable

adjective een-tol-leh-RAH-bee-leh Rare

Also means

unbearable

Usage Note

Intollerabile is an invariable-ending adjective that means something cannot be endured — un dolore intollerabile (unbearable pain), una situazione intollerabile (an intolerable situation). It is stronger than insopportabile (insufferable) and implies a moral or physical limit has been crossed. Note the double l, mirroring the double l in tollerare.

Examples

"Il caldo era diventato intollerabile."

Natural Translation

The heat had become intolerable.

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