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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tolerant \Tol"er*ant\, adjective [L. tolerans, p. pr. of tolerare to tolerate: cf. F. tol['e]rant. See {Tolerate}.] Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; indulgent.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tolerant
adjective
1: showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others [ant: {intolerant}]
2: tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke" [syn: {kind}]
3: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions" [syn: {broad}, {large-minded}, {liberal}]
4: showing the capacity for endurance; "injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving"; "a man patient of distractions" [syn: {patient of}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
83 Moby Thesaurus words for "tolerant": Spartan, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, admissive, advanced, agreeable, allowing, armed with patience, attentive, benevolent, broad, broad-minded, catholic, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, conciliatory, consenting, considerate, delicate, disciplined, dispassionate, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, fair, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, freethinking, generous, gentle, heedful, helpful, humane, indulgent, kind, latitudinarian, lax, lenient, liberal, libertarian, libertine, long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, merciful, mild, mindful, mindful of others, moderate, nonprohibitive, objective, obliging, open-minded, patient, patient as Job, permissive, permitting, persevering, philosophical, placable, regardful, self-controlled, soft, solicitous, sparing, stoic, suffering, tactful, tender, thoughtful, tolerating, tolerative, unbigoted, understanding, unprejudiced, unprohibitive, unresentful, unrevengeful
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