tolerant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   showing the capacity for endurance

   injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving

2. 2
   adj

   able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress

   the plant is tolerant of saltwater

3. 3
   adj

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

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

4. 4
   adj

   Tending to withstand or survive.

   These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.

5. 5
   adj

   showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

6. 6
   adj

   tolerant and forgiving under provocation

7. 7
   adj

   showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others

8. 8
   noun

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

Etymology

Either borrowed from French tolérant or directly from its source Latin tolerans, present participle of, and participial adjective from tolerō (“to endure”).