Tolerant

Quick meaning: Tolerant is an adjective meaning Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.

Meaning

Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.

More Meanings

1. Tending to withstand or survive.
2. One who or that which tolerates something, especially a biological species.

Example Sentences

These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.

He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.

Word Forms

• tolerants

Synonyms for tolerant

Depending on context, synonyms include patient, resistant, sufferable, forbearing, lenient, open-minded.

Antonyms for tolerant

Common opposites include brittle, intolerant, nonresistant, unresistant, vulnerable, weak.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include forgiving, broad-minded, patient, broad, easygoing, kind.

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