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tolerant

[ tol-er-uhnt ]

adjective

  1. inclined or disposed to tolerate; showing tolerance; forbearing:

    tolerant of errors.

  2. favoring toleration:

    a tolerant church.

  3. Medicine/Medical, Immunology.
    1. able to endure or resist the action of a drug, poison, etc.
    2. lacking or exhibiting low levels of immune response to a normally immunogenic substance.


tolerant

/ ˈtɒlərənt /

adjective

  1. able to tolerate the beliefs, actions, opinions, etc, of others
  2. permissive
  3. able to withstand extremes, as of heat and cold
  4. med (of a patient) exhibiting tolerance to a drug
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈtolerantly, adverb
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Other Words From

  • 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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Word History and Origins

Origin of tolerant1

First recorded in 1770–80; from Latin tolerant-, stem of tolerāns “bearing,” present participle of tolerāre “to bear”; tolerate
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Example Sentences

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.

The 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.

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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.

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Bigger dingoes may then, in turn, be more tolerant of the poison’s effects, their body size outpacing a relatively constant dosage over the years.

Jon 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.

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.

But it may also cause us to be too tolerant of further extensions of state power in the name of security.

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.

Yet, through a life devoted to the externals of it, Mata had been tolerant of beauty, rather than at one with it.

He was very attractive to the young, and tolerant of human infirmities, even when he gave the best advice.

We must admit it among ourselves, Jeronimo, those miscreants showed themselves quite tolerant!

In some of its articles Mazzini appears at his best,—more tolerant, less dogmatic and theoretical.

During the peaceful and tolerant reign of Charles II the country made steady progress.

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