Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To allow without prohibiting or opposing; permit.
- v. To recognize and respect (the rights, beliefs, or practices of others).
- v. To put up with; endure. See Synonyms at bear1.
- v. Medicine To have tolerance for (a substance or pathogen).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sustain or endure; specifically, in medicine, to endure or support, as a strain or a drug, without pernicious effect.
- To suffer to be or to be done without prohibition or hindrance; allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; put up with; endure; refrain from restraining; treat in a spirit of patience and forbearance; forbear to judge of or condemn with bigotry and severity: as, to tolerate opinions or practices.
- Synonyms Permit, Consent to, etc. (see allow); brook, put up with, abide, bear, bear with.
Wiktionary
- v. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To suffer to be, or to be done, without prohibition or hindrance; to allow or permit negatively, by not preventing; not to restrain; to put up with.
WordNet 3.0
- v. allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
- v. put up with something or somebody unpleasant
- v. have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition
- v. recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others)
Etymologies
- From Latin tolerātus (past participle), from tolerō ("I endure"). Cognate with Old English þolian ("to tolerate, suffer, bear"). More at thole. (Wiktionary)
- Latin tolerāre, tolerāt-, to bear; see telə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“What we need not tolerate is a federal regulatory structure that is blind to the operations of those who wheel and deal at the very center of the global economy and federal officials who are so uncertain of their aims and prerogatives that they fumble in the face of crisis. www. twitter.com/janiceharayda”
“I'm quite happy to let the right wingers be the "tolerant" ones, especially if what they tolerate is idiocy, mediocrity, and the destruction of what this country has and should stand for.”
“What more might your exquisitely delicate sensibilities manage to tolerate from a noxious slug like this, Andy, a lynching in your front yard?”
How Many Troops will Obama Withdraw from Iraq? « Antiwar.com Blog
“" Why do you hate (your fellow) America (ns)? "" can't abide means To put up with; to tolerate from the Latin toleratus, to endure, to put up with nothing about hatred at all.”
“Over the course of a tumultuous decade, those consequences included not just the ignominious end of an unpopular war and the fall of a president but a profound change in how much deceit the public — and the media — would tolerate from the Oval Office.”
“The only one I can even tolerate is El Vez (possibly Alma de Cuba).”
the continental midtown (sorry, stephen) « DESIGNPHILADELPHIA
“What they will not tolerate is the slickly lucid, Barbara Cartland kind.”
“But the other side of getting the behaviour we tolerate is getting the behaviour we demonstrate.”
Canadian Values and the Responsibility that Comes With Leadership
“In short, the justices routinely behave in a manner they would never tolerate from the judges whose opinions they review.”
“As German poet, dramatist and novelist Goethe once said: "To tolerate is to insult" -- meaning that paternalism is contemptuous of those it indulges.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘tolerate’.
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1100
abound, technology, branch of knowled..., prognosticate, automaton, matron, an older married ..., realm, special field of ..., kingdom, annals, historical records and 981 more...
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GRE 2014
abase, abate, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abjure, abortive, abound, abrasive, abreast, abridge and 1577 more...
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(1st_wk_150)-Dec_5_2012
voracious, indiscriminate, eminent, steeped, replete, abound, technology, prognosticate, automaton, matron, paradox, realm and 297 more...
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GRE 1100
drudgery, implore, hapless, nuance, wrest, incipient, inadvertent, tremulous, bristle, euphemism, disdain, pugnacious and 346 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
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1100 words you need to know
GRE words
voracious, indiscriminate, replete, steeped, eminent, perceive, intrepid, compound, automaton, reticent, interminable, drudgery and 288 more...
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Words
My list of words.
veritable, facetious, nadir, quixotic, apropos, acquiesce, ostensible, insipid, egregious, inveterate, coax, adroit and 409 more...
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eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
contemplate, container, consumer, consultant, consensus, conscious, conscience, connection, confusion, confront, conflict, confident and 4334 more...
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my list
executive, oxide, slang, paddy, calamity, pledge, carved, deliberate, vastly, tolerate, simultaneous, ornamental and 114 more...
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List 1
the list of vocabularies from 1100 words you need to know Barron's.
conceded, eminent, prognosticate, indiscriminate, voracious, replete, abound, badger, drudgery, interminable, perceive, tinge and 248 more...
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Prosie: Obama's Inaugural Address
In keeping with my other Prosies (like this one). There were a number of phrases as well as words in this speech that I found particularly compelling.
My fellow citizens: I stand here ...we did not turn b..., when we were tested, what storms may come, icy currents, virtue, hope, alarmed, depth of winter, revolution, snow, enemy, abandoned and 257 more...
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What a concept
surrender, submit, yield, self-sacrifice, relent, capitulate, compromise, accommodate, commiserate, forgive, placate, give and 94 more...
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Words of the Day
glabella, chirotony, nook-shotten, crapehanger, filemot, swirlie, egosurf, lexiphanicism, Ruritanian, stichometry, chrononaut, faldstool and 2031 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Bookworm
patrimony, salivates, bloviate, voile, cholo, tipples, golfed, gynecology, tolerate, miscreants, harries, cougar and 58 more...
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