Synonyms for tolerant
- adjective
Most common
liberal broad-minded forbearing open-minded broad large-minded
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Liberal — tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something
liberal, broad-minded, forbearing, open-minded, forgiving, lenient, catholic, indulgent, permissive, charitable, latitudinarian, unbigoted, relentful, easy-going, merciful, lax, clement, patient dated, sufferable dated
2. Broad
Definitions
- adj. 1
Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.
He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.
- adj. 2
Tending to withstand or survive.
These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.
Related words
- Word family
- tolerability tolerable tolerance tolerate toleration
- Is a kind of
- durable hardy
Example sentences
- liberal The publishers of that newspaper are very liberal.
- forbearing Be a little more forbearing!
- safe All the papers were taped up and kept in the safe.
- resistant Many are convinced that he is resistant to advice.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| tolerant | steady | |
| liberal | steady | |
| forbearing | rising | |
| safe | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 3 letters
- lax1
- 4 letters
- kind1, safe1
- 5 letters
- broad1
- 7 letters
- patient2, liberal3, clement2, lenient3
- 8 letters
- catholic2, merciful3
- 9 letters
- resistant3, forgiving3, indulgent3, unbigoted, relentful
- 10 letters
- charitable4, permissive3, forbearing, sufferable
- 14 letters
- latitudinarian
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (patient2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- tolérant
- Italiano
- tollerante
- Deutsch
- tolerant