TOLERANT Synonyms: 96 Similar and Opposite Words

tolerant

adjective

ˈtä-lə-rənt

as in patient

accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint this job requires a tolerant person who is used to dealing with complaints and angry customers

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as in resigned

receiving or enduring without offering resistance a tolerant acceptance of the terrible way that his wife has always treated him

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Recent Examples of tolerant The poet should be tolerant, disinterested, clear-eyed about long-standing animosities but not constrained by them. —

Maggie Doherty, The New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2024 The latest headline print was 1.7% versus 10.1% during Truss’s premiership, which economists said would make markets more tolerant of fiscal expansion. —

Jenni Reid, CNBC, 31 Oct. 2024 Some plants are more drought tolerant than others and not all areas of the yard will have the same water needs. —

Janet B. Carson, arkansasonline.com, 13 Oct. 2024 While Meta has continued spending billions of dollars on the virtual and augmented reality technologies needed to underpin the futuristic concept of the metaverse, investors have become more tolerant of the investments as long as the company’s core ad business remains healthy. —

Jonathan Vanian, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for tolerant

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Adjective

But be patient, NASA warns: the show will last until dawn.

Jenna Prestininzi, Detroit Free Press, 11 Dec. 2024
In some cases examined by The Marshall Project, doctors and social workers did not review patient medications to find the cause of a positive test.

Shoshana Walter, USA TODAY, 11 Dec. 2024