What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Reluctant vs Intolerant - What's the difference?

reluctant | intolerant |

As adjectives the difference between reluctant and intolerant

is that reluctant is opposing; offering resistance (to) while intolerant is intolerant; not tolerant.

reluctant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Opposing; offering resistance (to).
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.108:
    • There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
  • * 2008 , Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services , p. 222:
    • They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
  • Not wanting to take some action; unwilling.
    • She was reluctant to lend him the money

    Synonyms

    * unwilling, disinclined

    Related terms

    * reluctance * reluctantly

    External links

    * * *

    intolerant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unable or indisposed to tolerate, endure or bear.
    • I am lactose-intolerant , so I can't drink milk.
  • * Arbuthnot
    • The powers of human bodies being limited and intolerant of excesses.
  • Not tolerant; close-minded about new or different ideas. indisposed to tolerate contrary opinions or beliefs; impatient of dissent or opposition; denying or refusing the right of private opinion or choice in others; inclined to persecute or suppress dissent.

    • Related terms

    * intolerance * intolerantly * intolerate * intoleration * tolerance * tolerant

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who is intolerant; a bigot.
  • * 1856 , John David Chambers, Strictures, legal and historical, on the judgment of the Consistory Court of London, in December, 1855, in the Case of Westerton Versus Liddell
    • a portion of the prejudice which darkened the spirits of these intolerants , might perhaps have cast its shadow over him.

    References

    * * ----