How to say "intolerant" in Japanese

• 器の小さいうつわのちいさい
  expression, i-adjectiveIntolerant in the sense of small-minded and unforgiving: the idiom pictures a person whose 'vessel' — capacity for tolerance — is small. This is the attributive form, the counterpart of 器が小さい.
• 器が小さいうつわがちいさい
  expression, i-adjectiveThe same idiom as 器の小さい in its predicative, standalone form: it says outright that someone's 'vessel' is small — a small-minded, inflexible, unforgiving person, intolerant of views and people unlike themselves.
• 狭量きょうりょう
  na-adjective, nounThe moral sense of 'intolerant': a petty, narrow-minded cast of mind. The word passes judgment on a person's disposition, condemning it as intolerant and lacking breadth.
  彼かれの上役うわやくは狭量きょうりょうさを軽蔑けいべつしている。↗

  He is contemptuous of his boss's narrow mind.
• 心の狭いこころのせまい
  expression, prenominal modifierLiterally 'narrow of heart': a small-minded, close-minded person, intolerant of opinions and of people different from themselves. Used to characterize someone whose mind leaves no room for views but their own.
• 狭隘きょうあい
  na-adjective, nounChiefly a word for physical narrowness — of roads, land, or space. For a person's mind it is rare and marginal: seldom the word you want for 'intolerant'.

All five render only the character sense of 'intolerant' — narrow- or small-minded — never the medical sense of intolerance to a food or substance; choose by nuance and grammatical form, treating 狭隘 as a marginal choice.

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• 器の小さいうつわのちいさいintolerant
• 器が小さいうつわがちいさいintolerant
• 狭量きょうりょうnarrow-minded
• 心の狭いこころのせまいnarrow-minded
• 狭隘きょうあいnarrow-minded