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tolerant
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective tolerant has 5 senses
- tolerant(a = adj.all) Array - showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others; Array Antonym: intolerant
- tolerant(s = adj.all) kind - tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke" Derived form verb tolerate1
- tolerant(s = adj.all) broad, large-minded, liberal - showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" Derived form verb tolerate2
- tolerant(s = adj.all) resistant - able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress; "the plant is tolerant of saltwater"; "these fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided"; "the new hybrid is more resistant to drought"
- tolerant(s = adj.all) patient of - showing the capacity for endurance; "injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving"; "a man patient of distractions" Derived form verb tolerate1
Derived forms noun tolerance4, verb tolerate2
CIDE DICTIONARY
tolerant, a. [L. tolerans, p. pr. of tolerare to tolerate: cf. F. tolérant. See Tolerate.].
Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
tolerant, adj.
1 disposed or accustomed to tolerate others or their acts or opinions.
2 (foll. by of) enduring or patient.
1 disposed or accustomed to tolerate others or their acts or opinions.
2 (foll. by of) enduring or patient.
Derivative
tolerantly adv.
Etymology
F tol{eacute}rant f. L tolerare (as TOLERATE)
THESAURUS
tolerant
Spartan, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, admissive, advanced, agreeable, allowing, armed with patience, attentive, benevolent, broad, broad-minded, catholic, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, conciliatory, consenting, considerate, delicate, disciplined, dispassionate, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, fair, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, freethinking, generous, gentle, heedful, helpful, humane, indulgent, kind, latitudinarian, lax, lenient, liberal, libertarian, libertine, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, merciful, mild, mindful, mindful of others, moderate, nonprohibitive, objective, obliging, open-minded, patient, patient as Job, permissive, permitting, persevering, philosophical, placable, regardful, self-controlled, soft, solicitous, sparing, stoic, suffering, tactful, tender, thoughtful, tolerating, tolerative, unbigoted, understanding, unprejudiced, unprohibitive, unresentful, unrevengefulROGET THESAURUS
tolerant
Lenity
N lenity, lenience, leniency, moderation, tolerance, toleration, mildness, gentleness, favor, indulgence, indulgency, clemency, mercy, forbearance, quarter, compassion, lenient, mild, mild as milk, gentle, soft, tolerant, indulgent, easy-going, clement, forbearing, long-suffering.Inexcitability
N inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability, even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion, tolerance, patience, coolth, passiveness, hebetude, hebetation, impassibility, stupefaction, coolness, calmness, composure, placidity, indisturbance, imperturbation, sang froid, tranquility, serenity, quiet, quietude, peace of mind, mental calmness, staidness, gravity, sobriety, Quakerism, philosophy, equanimity, stoicism, command of temper, self-possession, self-control, self-command, self-restraint, ice water in one's veins, presence of mind, submission, resignation, sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance, longanimity, fortitude, patience of Job, patience on a monument, patience 'sovereign o'er transmuted ill', moderation, repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling, restraint, tranquillization, inexcitable, unexcitable, imperturbable, unsusceptible, unpassionate, dispassionate, cold-blooded, irritable, enduring, stoical, Platonic, philosophic, staid, stayed, sober, sober minded, grave, sober as a judge, grave as a judge, sedate, demure, cool-headed, easy-going, peaceful, placid, calm, quiet as a mouse, tranquil, serene, cool as a cucumber, cool as a custard, undemonstrative, temperate, composed, collected, unexcited, unstirred, unruffled, undisturbed, unperturbed, unimpassioned, unoffended, unresisting, meek, tolerant, patient, patient as Job, submissive, tame, content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike, gentle as a lamb, suaviter in modo, mild as mothers milk, soft as peppermint, armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering, like patience on a monument smiling at grief, aequo animo, in cold blood, more in sorrow than in anger, Int, patience!, and shuffle the cards, cool calm and collected, keep calm in the midst of a storm, adversity's sweet milk, philosophy, mens aequa in arduis philosophia stemma non inspec, quo me cumque rapit tempestas deferor hospes, they also serve who only stand and wait.
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