Adjective: tolerant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more tolerant |
| Superlative | most tolerant |
Sample Sentences
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He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.
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These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.
Adjectives inflected like tolerant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
Either borrowed from French tolérant or directly from its source Latin tolerans, present participle of, and participial adjective from tolerō (“to endure”). See: French Adjectives '
tolérant'.
Verbs referencing "tolerant"
Finnish Adjectives
tolerantti.