Synonyms of forbearance

forbearance

noun

fȯr-ˈber-ən(t)s 

1

as in patience

the capacity to endure what is difficult or disagreeable without complaining

we thank you for your forbearance while we attend to the technical difficulties interrupting the TV program

Synonyms & Similar Words

• patience
• tolerance
• sufferance
• long-suffering
• acquiescence
• willingness
• subordination
• discipline
• resignation
• passivity
• docility
• obedience
• compliance
• passiveness
• submission
• self-control
• tractability
• submissiveness
• amenability
• conformism

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• impatience
• defiance
• resistance
• disobedience
• insubordination
• willfulness
• recalcitrance
• intractability
• contrariness

2

as in mercy

kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it

the judge showed forbearance, and gave the teenaged first offender a suspended sentence

Synonyms & Similar Words

• mercy
• mercifulness
• empathy
• leniency
• compassion
• kindness
• clemency
• sympathy
• grace
• lenience
• lenity
• charity
• tenderness
• generosity
• goodness
• quarter
• pity
• understanding
• affection
• love
• gentleness
• magnanimity
• meekness
• goodwill
• humanitarianism
• benevolence
• kindliness
• altruism
• softness
• mildness
• philanthropy
• devotion
• favor
• nobility
• niceness
• worship
• commiseration
• humaneness
• care

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• ruthlessness
• retaliation
• vengeance
• retribution
• revenge
• punishment
• cruelty
• vindictiveness
• discipline
• reprisal
• violence
• virulence
• brutality
• barbarity
• savagery
• spite
• requital
• hatred
• sadism
• uncharitableness
• viciousness
• mercilessness
• chastisement
• truculence
• venom
• vitriol
• wantonness
• malice
• scolding
• hostility
• savageness
• hard-heartedness
• pitilessness
• castigation
• abhorrence
• meanness
• hate
• enmity
• loathing
• atrocity
• antagonism
• malignity
• resentment
• animosity
• detestation
• jealousy
• malevolence
• malignancy
• abomination
• bitterness
• antipathy
• execration
• maliciousness
• spleen
• grudge
• gall
• rancor
• jaundice
• nastiness
• bile
• pique
• harshness
• spitefulness
• hardness
• roughness
• coarseness
• hatefulness
• cattiness
• invidiousness

Examples of forbearance in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Borrowers whose servicers put them in forbearance as a result of the court rulings will remain as such in July with their new, lower payment due in August. —Gillian Brassil, Sacramento Bee, 2 July 2024

The administration put loans from all Save enrollees in an interest-free forbearance in response. —Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 22 July 2024

Payments are not required during a forbearance, but a borrower is not making any progress toward paying down their debt. —Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 19 July 2024

Relying on the forbearance of one individual leader is no way to run a credible, sound foreign policy—or a democratic government. —Sarah Binder, Foreign Affairs, 18 July 2024