tolerant
[tol-er-uh nt]
- 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.
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Origin of tolerant
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Contemporary Examples
Such is the Sierra Leonean way, the most tolerant, compassionate, and friendly people I have found anywhere.
But 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 ProfilingClive Irving
September 2, 2014
She speaks with chilly precision, “in the tone that a bored but tolerant adult might use.”
The organization presents itself as a tolerant Islamic voice—the “good Muslim,” if you will.
The Hedonistic, Possibly Holocaust-Denying Sect That’s Hoodwinking Republican CongressmenJay Michaelson
April 19, 2014
Nothing better conveyed the message that America was a tolerant, multicultural nation.
Historical Examples
Not being a knowledge of the whole truth it should be humble, tolerant, and eager to expand.
The Conquest of FearBasil King
It was nothing to her that the kindness took the form of tolerant patronage; she was used to that.
Little DorritCharles Dickens
The place was well known to tolerant and intellectual society.
The Three Cities Trilogy, CompleteEmile Zola
His large, tolerant intelligence was often as unorderly as his papers and accounts.
The American MindBliss Perry
"People should at least study appearances," the most tolerant women would say.
The Fortune of the RougonsEmile Zola
tolerant
- 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
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Word Origin and History for tolerant
adj.
1784, from Latin tolerantia "endurance," from tolerans, present participle of tolerare "to bear, endure, tolerate" (see toleration). Related: Tolerantly.
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