tolerant
Americanadjective
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inclined or disposed to tolerate; showing tolerance; forbearing.
tolerant of errors.
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favoring toleration.
a tolerant church.
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Medicine/Medical, Immunology.
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able to endure or resist the action of a drug, poison, etc.
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lacking or exhibiting low levels of immune response to a normally immunogenic substance.
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adjective
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able to tolerate the beliefs, actions, opinions, etc, of others
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permissive
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able to withstand extremes, as of heat and cold
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med (of a patient) exhibiting tolerance to a drug
Other Word Forms
- nontolerant adjective
- nontolerantly adverb
- overtolerant adjective
- overtolerantly adverb
- quasi-tolerant adjective
- quasi-tolerantly adverb
- self-tolerant adjective
- self-tolerantly adverb
- tolerantly adverb
Etymology
Origin of tolerant
First recorded in 1770–80; from Latin tolerant-, stem of tolerāns “bearing,” present participle of tolerāre “to bear”; tolerate
Example Sentences
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Others at Mr. Julian’s table gave similarly tolerant responses to my question about Mr. Paxton’s peccadillos.
To address this limitation, the team inserted a gene from a related bacterium that is more tolerant of oxygen.
From Science Daily
We will take solace in how funny he could be, how wise and utterly accepting and tolerant he was.
From BBC
The third-party manager could be less tolerant of cost overruns and delays.
In his rebuke on Wednesday evening, Sir Keir added that Britain was "a proud, tolerant and diverse country" and called on Sir Jim to apologise.
From BBC
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