intolerant
adjective /ɪnˈtɒl.ər.ənt/
/-ˈtɑː.lɚ-/ disapprovingDefinition
C2 disapproving of or refusing to accept ideas or ways of behaving that are different from your own: She can be very intolerant of students who don't understand what she's talking about.Narrow-minded intolerantly /-li/ adverb Narrow-minded
(Definition of intolerant adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be set in your ways idiom
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinkered adjective
- hidebound adjective
- illiberal adjective
- insular adjective
- intolerance noun
- myopic adjective
- narrow-minded adjective
- parochial adjective (LIMITED)
- petty adjective
- prim adjective
- prissy adjective
- short-sighted adjective (THOUGHT)
- small-minded adjective
- strait-laced adjective
- unreconstructed adjective
- unthinking adjective
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Narrow-minded
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