tolerant

From Old French tolerant, from Latin tolerans, present participle of tolerō (“endure”).

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒləɹənt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːləɹənt/

tolerant (comparative more tolerant, superlative most tolerant)

1. Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.

   He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.

2. Tending to withstand or survive.

   These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.

• intolerant

tolerant (plural tolerants)

1. One who or that which tolerates something, especially a biological species.

• “tolerant”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “tolerant”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “tolerant”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• Tarleton

Borrowed from Latin tolerantem.

tolerant m or f (masculine and feminine plural tolerants)

1. tolerant

   Antonym: intolerant

• tolerància
• tolerar

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

tolerant

1. gerund of tolerar

• “tolerant”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
• “tolerant”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2025
• “tolerant” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “tolerant” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

From French tolérant, derived from French tolérer, see Danish tolerere.

tolerant (neuter tolerant, plural and definite singular attributive tolerante)

1. tolerant (of a person, act, or the like)

   Antonym: intolerant

2. (especially medicine) tolerant (to a substance or the like)

• tolerance

• “tolerant” in Den Danske Ordbog

Borrowed from French tolérant.

• IPA^(key): /toː.ləˈrɑnt/, /tɔ-/

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• Hyphenation: to‧le‧rant
• Rhymes: -ɑnt

tolerant (comparative toleranter, superlative tolerantst)

1. tolerant

   Synonym: verdraagzaam

   Antonyms: intolerant, onverdraagzaam

• → Indonesian: toleran

• van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “tolerant”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

• IPA^(key): /toləˈʁant/
• Rhymes: -ant

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tolerant (strong nominative masculine singular toleranter, comparative toleranter, superlative am tolerantesten)

1. tolerant

• “tolerant” in Duden online
• “tolerant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

tolerant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of tolerō  "they bear, they endure, they tolerate"

From French tolérant.

tolerant (neuter singular tolerant, definite singular and plural tolerante)

1. tolerant

• “tolerant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From French tolérant.

tolerant (neuter singular tolerant, definite singular and plural tolerante)

1. tolerant

• “tolerant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Borrowed from French tolérant.

tolerant m or n (feminine singular tolerantă, masculine plural toleranți, feminine and neuter plural tolerante)

1. tolerant

• toleranță

tolerant (comparative tolerantare, superlative tolerantast)

1. tolerant

• intolerant

• tolerans

• tolerant in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• tolerant in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• tolerant in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• lotterna