Synonyms of tolerant

tolerant

adjective

ˈtä-lə-rənt 

1

as in patient

accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint

this job requires a tolerant person who is used to dealing with complaints and angry customers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• patient
• stoic
• obedient
• passive
• forbearing
• uncomplaining
• willing
• long-suffering
• subordinate
• obliging
• collected
• lenient
• composed
• restrained
• docile
• compliant
• acquiescent
• amiable
• resigned
• tractable
• conformist
• submissive
• repressed
• amenable
• placable
• complying
• disciplined
• inhibited
• yielding
• constrained
• subservient
• law-abiding
• contained
• agreeable
• slavish
• unresponsive
• unresistant
• uncaring
• apathetic
• curbed
• self-controlled
• self-contained

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• complaining
• impatient
• protesting
• resistant
• fed up
• weary
• tired
• bored
• defiant
• kvetchy
• kvetching
• refractory
• rebellious
• contrary
• recalcitrant
• intractable
• disobedient
• unmanageable
• insubordinate
• unruly
• ungovernable

2

as in resigned

receiving or enduring without offering resistance

a tolerant acceptance of the terrible way that his wife has always treated him

Synonyms & Similar Words

• resigned
• obedient
• passive
• acquiescent
• willing
• tolerating
• nonresistant
• yielding
• stoic
• docile
• compliant
• unresistant
• patient
• forbearing
• uncomplaining
• amiable
• tractable
• conformist
• subordinate
• conformable
• pliant
• long-suffering
• complying
• submissive
• amenable
• pliable
• impassive
• agreeable
• manageable
• law-abiding
• surrendering
• obliging
• unresponsive
• subservient
• obeisant
• uncaring
• apathetic
• slavish
• governable
• guidable
• disciplined

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• resistant
• protesting
• defiant
• resisting
• unyielding
• refractory
• rebellious
• recalcitrant
• uncontrollable
• contrary
• intractable
• disobedient
• unruly
• mutinous
• insubordinate
• contumacious
• restive
• insurgent
• wayward
• ungovernable
• perverse
• untoward
• willful
• wrongheaded
• headstrong
• balky
• indomitable
• unmanageable
• incompliant
• undisciplined
• froward
• dissident
• nonconformist

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tolerant

This heat-tolerant subspecies is sometimes also called Florida maple and can be grown as far south as zone 9b. — Arricca Elin Sansone, Southern Living, 12 Sep. 2026

The outdoor space was designed by Mia Lehrer, founder and president of the landscape architecture firm Studio-MLA, and features native and drought-tolerant plants. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Sep. 2026

So will coaches be slightly more tolerant of mistakes, considering the inexperience? — Barry Jackson, Miami Herald, 11 Sep. 2026

Referees are asked to be more tolerant when players are desperately trying to score or defend their goal. — Graham Scott, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026