A receiver with suppressed intermodulation distortion for a radio communication terminal. In the receiver, a low noise amplifier for amplifying a received signal, has an operating power being increased in response to a first control signal to reduce an intermodulation distortion signal. An RF bandpass filter bandpass-filters the signals in a reception frequency band out of the signals output from the low noise amplifier. A mixer mixes an output of the RF bandpass filter with a local oscillation signal to generate an intermediate frequency signal by down-converting the output of the RF bandpass filter. An intermediate frequency amplifier for amplifying the intermediate frequency signal output from the mixer, and having an operating power being increased to reduce the intermodulation distortion signal in response to a second control signal. An intermediate frequency bandpass filter bandpass-filters an intermediate frequency signal out of the signals output from the intermediate frequency amplifier. A demodulator and signal processor demodulates and processes the intermediate frequency signal output from the intermediate frequency bandpass filter to generate an received signal strength indicator signal and a signal-to-noise ratio signal. A controller having a reference received signal strength indicator signal and a reference signal-to-noise ratio signal stored therein, compares the received signal strength indicator signal and the signal-to-noise ratio signal with the reference received signal strength indicator signal and the reference signal-to-noise ratio signal to determine whether a reception sensitivity is poor, and activates said first and second control signals if the reception sensitivity is poor. And one or more attenuators are provided to be controlled by the controller in response to the further comparisons made between the generated signal-to-noise ratio signal and the reference signal-to-noise ratio signal.