tolerant
inclined or disposed to tolerate; showing tolerance; forbearing: tolerant of errors.
favoring toleration: a tolerant church.
Medicine/Medical, Immunology.
able to endure or resist the action of a drug, poison, etc.
lacking or exhibiting low levels of immune response to a normally immunogenic substance.
Origin of tolerant
1Other words from tolerant
- tol·er·ant·ly, adverb
- non·tol·er·ant, adjective
- non·tol·er·ant·ly, adverb
- o·ver·tol·er·ant, adjective
- o·ver·tol·er·ant·ly, adverb
- qua·si-tol·er·ant, adjective
- qua·si-tol·er·ant·ly, adverb
- self-tol·er·ant, adjective
- self-tol·er·ant·ly, adverb
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How to use tolerant in a sentence
Benoit suspects that if scientists can identify these genes, they could use them to engineer new types of cells tolerant of high pressures and little oxygen.
One tiny sea parasite survives 200 times atmospheric pressure | Shi En Kim | September 25, 2020 | Science News For StudentsThe pandemic’s onslaught makes investors a lot more tolerant of tough decisions that cause short-term pain but build on what makes money, shelves losers, and jettisons lofty ambitions.
The Federal Reserve is expected to make that official by announcing a new strategy that requires it to be more tolerant when prices overshoot, and refrain from preemptive interest-rate increases.
After $20 trillion in pandemic relief spending, there’s still no sign of inflation. What happened? | Bernhard Warner | August 25, 2020 | FortuneBigger dingoes may then, in turn, be more tolerant of the poison’s effects, their body size outpacing a relatively constant dosage over the years.
Culling dingoes with poison may be making them bigger | Jake Buehler | August 19, 2020 | Science NewsJon Oatley, a reproductive biologist at Washington State University, wants to use Crispr-Cas9 to fine tune the genetic code of rugged, disease-resistant, and heat-tolerant bulls that have been bred to thrive on the open range.
Biotechnology Could Change the Cattle Industry. Will It Succeed? | Dyllan Furness | August 16, 2020 | Singularity Hub
That is a more tolerant approach than that of traditional museum curators.
Such is the Sierra Leonean way, the most tolerant, compassionate, and friendly people I have found anywhere.
In Sierra Leone, the Plague Is Closing in Around Us | Ned Eustace | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTBut it may also cause us to be too tolerant of further extensions of state power in the name of security.
David Cameron's Plan to Fight ISIS Will Likely Involve Racial Profiling | Clive Irving | September 2, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTShe speaks with chilly precision, “in the tone that a bored but tolerant adult might use.”
American Dreams: A Best-Selling Pint-Sized Psychopath | Nathaniel Rich | June 29, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe organization presents itself as a tolerant Islamic voice—the “good Muslim,” if you will.
The Hedonistic, Possibly Holocaust-Denying Sect That’s Hoodwinking Republican Congressmen | Jay Michaelson | April 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet, through a life devoted to the externals of it, Mata had been tolerant of beauty, rather than at one with it.
The Dragon Painter | Mary McNeil FenollosaHe was very attractive to the young, and tolerant of human infirmities, even when he gave the best advice.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume I | John LordWe must admit it among ourselves, Jeronimo, those miscreants showed themselves quite tolerant!
The Pilgrim's Shell or Fergan the Quarryman | Eugne SueIn some of its articles Mazzini appears at his best,—more tolerant, less dogmatic and theoretical.
The Life of Mazzini | Bolton KingDuring the peaceful and tolerant reign of Charles II the country made steady progress.
Is Ulster Right? | Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for tolerant
/ (ˈtɒlərənt) /
able to tolerate the beliefs, actions, opinions, etc, of others
permissive
able to withstand extremes, as of heat and cold
med (of a patient) exhibiting tolerance to a drug
Derived forms of tolerant
- tolerantly, adverb
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