intolerable

Etymology

From Middle French intolerable, from Latin intolerābilis. Synchronically, in- + tolerable.

adj

1. Not tolerable; not capable of being borne or endured.
2. Extremely offensive or insulting.
   It is an intolerable sound that sets spoons tinkling in saucers and windowpanes vibrating. 1971, William S. Burroughs, The Wild Boys: A Book of the Dead, page 4
3. (nuclear power) 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. December 15 2022, Samanth Subramanian, “Dismantling Sellafield: the epic task of shutting down a nuclear site”, in The Guardian