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

Shinn also suggests choosing a shade-tolerant blend that can handle tough competition. — Madeline Buiano, Martha Stewart, 1 Nov. 2026

While there are some native plants and many drought-tolerant plants across the Lucas grounds, there are also surprising gaps. — Pedro Moura, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

There's nothing that the kind and tolerant left loves more than being unkind and intolerant towards people who have a different political perspective. — Ian Miller Outkick, FOXNews.com, 27 Oct. 2026

In laboratory experiments, researchers have put different fungi in incubators and, by steadily raising the temperature, have spawned fungi that are more tolerant to higher heat. — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 27 Oct. 2026