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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (5)

1. showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others;

2. tolerant and forgiving under provocation;
- Example: "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke"
[syn: kind, tolerant]

3. showing or characterized by broad-mindedness;
- Example: "a broad political stance"
- Example: "generous and broad sympathies"
- Example: "a liberal newspaper"
- Example: "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
[syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant]

4. able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress;
- Example: "the plant is tolerant of saltwater"
- Example: "these fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided"
- Example: "the new hybrid is more resistant to drought"
[syn: tolerant, resistant]

5. showing the capacity for endurance;
- Example: "injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving"
- Example: "a man patient of distractions"
[syn: tolerant, patient of]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Tolerant \Tol"er*ant\, a. [L. tolerans, p. pr. of tolerare to tolerate: cf. F. tol['e]rant. See Tolerate.] Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

tolerant adj 1: showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others [ant: intolerant] 2: tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke" [syn: kind, tolerant] 3: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: broad, large-minded, liberal, tolerant] 4: 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" [syn: tolerant, resistant] 5: showing the capacity for endurance; "injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving"; "a man patient of distractions" [syn: tolerant, patient of]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, unrevengeful