Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Inclined to tolerate the beliefs or behavior of others; forbearing.
- adjective Able to withstand or endure an adverse environmental condition.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Inclined or disposed to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; enduring.
- In medicine, able to receive or endure without effect, or without pernicious effect.
- noun One who tolerates; especially, one who is free from bigotry; a tolerationist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective tending to
permit ,allow ,understand , oraccept something - adjective tending to
withstand orsurvive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others
- adjective tolerant and forgiving under provocation
- adjective able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
- adjective showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
- adjective showing the capacity for endurance
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Holdsworthy was an enthusiast over flowers, and a half lunatic over raising prize poultry; and these engrossing madnesses were a source of perpetual joy to Daylight, who looked on in tolerant good humor.
Chapter I 2010
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Being tolerant is of course nice, but in my reading of literary biographies, most great writers are anything but, aside from the tolerance they show in their work for the human frailties we all share.
Style in Fiction 2009
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After all, "more tolerant" is not the same as tolerant.
Alvin McEwen: FRC's Tony Perkins plays the victim but won't addressing the errors in his anti-gay column Alvin McEwen 2010
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Or should we remain tolerant ourselves and try to set an example for these people by doing the live-and-let-live thing as long as they don't drag the "bad" discussions into forums where they don't belong?
MIND MELD: Books That Hold Special Places in Our Hearts and On Our Shelves 2009
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Of interest, the most tolerant is Buddhist, and the most intolerant is Catholicism.
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To suggest that they are tolerant is to suggest that they just get on because they have to.
The Kids are Alright lili 2008
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One way to be tolerant is to have personal, specific opinions while allowing for the possibility that you might be mistaken.
Ambiguity Tolerance 2008
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Of interest, the most tolerant is Buddhist, and the most intolerant is Catholicism.
Religion And Sexual Ethics « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2008
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To be tolerant is to have a bit of give, to tolerate, to endure that which you'd prefer not to.
The Protocols of the Elders of Sodom Hal Duncan 2007
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To be tolerant is to have a bit of give, to tolerate, to endure that which you'd prefer not to.
Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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