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tolerant

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of tolerant

1 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 of tolerant

forbearing, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining
Words Related to tolerant

lenient

acquiescent, passive, resigned, unresistant, yielding

agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformist, docile, law-abiding, obedient, placable, submissive, subordinate, tractable, willing

slavish, subservient

amiable, obliging

collected, composed

constrained, contained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restrained

disciplined, self-contained, self-controlled

apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive
Near Antonyms of tolerant

bored, tired, weary

defiant, resistant

contrary, disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly
Antonyms of tolerant

complaining, fed up, impatient, kvetching, kvetchy, protesting

2 receiving or enduring without offering resistance

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

acquiescent, nonresistant, passive, resigned, tolerating, unresistant, yielding
Words Related to tolerant

forbearing, impassive, long-suffering, patient, stoic (or stoical), uncomplaining

agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformable, conformist, docile, guidable, law-abiding, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing

obeisant, submissive, surrendering

amiable, obliging

slavish, subservient

disciplined, governable, manageable

apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive
Near Antonyms of tolerant

defiant

contrary, contumacious, disobedient, froward, incompliant, insubordinate, insurgent, intractable, mutinous, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, restive, uncontrollable, ungovernable, unruly, untoward

balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded

headstrong, willful (or wilful)

indomitable

undisciplined, unmanageable

dissident, nonconformist
Antonyms of tolerant

protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding

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