tolerant

adjective

tol·er·ant | \ ˈtä-lə-rənt

, ˈtäl-rənt \

Definition of tolerant

1 : inclined to tolerate especially : marked by forbearance or endurance tolerant parents a culture tolerant of religious differences

2 : exhibiting tolerance (as for a drug or an environmental factor)

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Examples of tolerant in a Sentence

this job requires a tolerant person who is used to dealing with complaints and angry customers a tolerant acceptance of the terrible way that his wife has always treated him

Recent Examples on the Web For starters, plant bolt-resistant or heat-tolerant types of lettuce, such as butterhead varieties or romaine cultivars like 'Sparx' and 'Salvius'. Start your lettuce outdoors early in the spring. — Lynn Coulter, Better Homes & Gardens, 9 May 2022 Planting salt-tolerant superfoods in the desert, building indoor vertical farms and smart greenhouses in the Dubai desert are just some of the UAE’s efforts to boost local production. — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 2 May 2022 Crawford’s wife, Jenny, of Branch Out Landscape Design, also in Carlsbad, added drought-tolerant plants to complement the house and deck, including red bougainvillea, plumeria, lomandra, asparagus foxtail ferns, agaves and pittosporum crassifolium. — Nicole Sours Larson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Apr. 2022 Drought-tolerant trees must also be planted and maintained within the buffer zone. — Tony Briscoestaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 Apr. 2022 Drought-tolerant plants, such as vining, semi-succulent hoyas, can be placed on tall shelves that may be difficult to reach for watering, Cox says. — Washington Post, 6 Apr. 2022 Designing products to have overlapping parts and lowering the number of SKUs are other approaches to make supply chains fault-tolerant. — Cyrus Hadavi, Forbes, 7 Mar. 2022 All are drought-tolerant, which Lodato and Killoren said was important given the historic 22-year drought in Arizona, a dry period exacerbated by climate change. — Zayna Syed, The Arizona Republic, 7 Mar. 2022 Which is why Mudawar’s heat-tolerant charging cable may matter. — Gregory Barber, Wired, 9 Feb. 2022 See More

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