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tolerating

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of tolerating

receiving or enduring without offering resistance

old pictures of a graciously tolerating father letting his young children climb all over him

Synonyms of tolerating

acquiescent, nonresistant, passive, resigned, tolerant, unresistant, yielding

Words Related to tolerating

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

agreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, docile, guidable, obedient, pliable, pliant, subordinate, tractable, willing

obeisant, submissive, surrendering

amiable, obliging

slavish, subservient

disciplined, governable, manageable

apathetic, uncaring, unresponsive

Near Antonyms of tolerating

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

balky, perverse, wayward, wrongheaded

headstrong, willful (or wilful)

undisciplined, unmanageable

dissident, nonconformist

Antonyms of tolerating

protesting, resistant, resisting, unyielding

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