tolerant

See also: tolérant

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈtɒləɹənt/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈtɑːləɹənt/

Adjective

tolerant (comparative more tolerant, superlative most tolerant)

1. Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something. [from 1784]

   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.

Antonyms

• intolerant

Hyponyms

• acidotolerant
• aerotolerant
• alkalitolerant
• alkalotolerant
• autotolerant
• barotolerant
• chaotolerant
• cryotolerant
• drought-tolerant
• eurytolerant
• extremotolerant
• fault-tolerant
• halotolerant
• hypertolerant
• immunotolerant
• metallotolerant
• metalotolerant
• nontolerant
• normoglucotolerant
• normotolerant
• osmotolerant
• piezotolerant
• polyextremotolerant
• psychrotolerant
• radiotolerant
• thermotolerant
• trypanotolerant
• xerotolerant

Derived terms

• tolerantism
• tolerantist
• tolerantly

Related terms

• tolerability
• tolerable
• tolerance
• tolerate
• toleration

Translations

tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something

• Armenian: հանդուրժող (hy) (handuržoġ)
• Belarusian: цярплі́вы m (cjarplívy), талера́нтны (taljerántny)
• Catalan: tolerant (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 寬容 / 宽容 (zh) (kuānróng)

• Czech: tolerantní (cs), snášenlivý (cs)
• Danish: tolerant
• Dutch: verdraagzaam (nl), tolerant (nl)
• Esperanto: tolerema
• Finnish: suvaitsevainen (fi), avarakatseinen (fi)
• French: tolérant (fr)
• Galician: tolerante (gl)
• German: tolerant (de)
• Greek: ανεκτικός (el) (anektikós)
• Hungarian: toleráns (hu)
• Irish: fulangach
• Latin: tolerans
• Māori: manawanui, manawarahi, ngāwari
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: tolerant

  Nynorsk: tolerant

• Persian: تاونده (tāvande)
• Polish: tolerancyjny (pl)
• Portuguese: tolerante (pt)
• Russian: терпи́мый (ru) (terpímyj), толера́нтный (ru) (tolerántnyj)
• Slovak: tolerantný (sk)
• Spanish: tolerante (es)
• Swedish: tolerant (sv)
• Ukrainian: толера́нтний (tolerántnyj)

tending to withstand or survive

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 能耐 (zh) (néngnài)

• Dutch: bestendig (nl)
• Finnish: sietää (fi) (verb: be tolerant of)
• Irish: fulangach

Noun

tolerant (plural tolerants)

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

Further reading

• “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.

Anagrams

• Tarleton

Catalan

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin tolerantem.

Adjective

tolerant m or f (masculine and feminine plural tolerants)

1. tolerant

   Antonym: intolerant

Related terms

• tolerància
• tolerar

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tolerant

1. gerund of tolerar

Further reading

• “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, 2026
• “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.

Danish

Etymology

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

Adjective

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)

Related terms

• tolerance

References

• “tolerant” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French tolérant.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /toː.ləˈrɑnt/, /tɔ-/

• Audio:

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

Adjective

tolerant (comparative toleranter, superlative tolerantst)

1. tolerant

   Synonym: verdraagzaam

   Antonyms: intolerant, onverdraagzaam

Inflection

Declension of tolerant
uninflected	tolerant
inflected	tolerante
comparative	toleranter
		positive	comparative	superlative
predicative/adverbial		tolerant	toleranter	het tolerantst het tolerantste
indefinite	m./f. sing.	tolerante	tolerantere	tolerantste
	n. sing.	tolerant	toleranter	tolerantste
	plural	tolerante	tolerantere	tolerantste
definite		tolerante	tolerantere	tolerantste
partitive		tolerants	toleranters	—

Related terms

• tolerabel
• tolerantie
• tolereren

Descendants

• → Indonesian: toleran

References

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

German

Pronunciation

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

• Audio (Germany (Berlin)):

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Adjective

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

1. tolerant

Declension

Positive forms of tolerant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist tolerant	sie ist tolerant	es ist tolerant	sie sind tolerant
strong declension (without article)	nominative	toleranter	tolerante	tolerantes	tolerante
	genitive	toleranten	toleranter	toleranten	toleranter
	dative	tolerantem	toleranter	tolerantem	toleranten
	accusative	toleranten	tolerante	tolerantes	tolerante
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der tolerante	die tolerante	das tolerante	die toleranten
	genitive	des toleranten	der toleranten	des toleranten	der toleranten
	dative	dem toleranten	der toleranten	dem toleranten	den toleranten
	accusative	den toleranten	die tolerante	das tolerante	die toleranten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein toleranter	eine tolerante	ein tolerantes	(keine) toleranten
	genitive	eines toleranten	einer toleranten	eines toleranten	(keiner) toleranten
	dative	einem toleranten	einer toleranten	einem toleranten	(keinen) toleranten
	accusative	einen toleranten	eine tolerante	ein tolerantes	(keine) toleranten

Comparative forms of tolerant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist toleranter	sie ist toleranter	es ist toleranter	sie sind toleranter
strong declension (without article)	nominative	toleranterer	tolerantere	toleranteres	tolerantere
	genitive	toleranteren	toleranterer	toleranteren	toleranterer
	dative	toleranterem	toleranterer	toleranterem	toleranteren
	accusative	toleranteren	tolerantere	toleranteres	tolerantere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der tolerantere	die tolerantere	das tolerantere	die toleranteren
	genitive	des toleranteren	der toleranteren	des toleranteren	der toleranteren
	dative	dem toleranteren	der toleranteren	dem toleranteren	den toleranteren
	accusative	den toleranteren	die tolerantere	das tolerantere	die toleranteren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein toleranterer	eine tolerantere	ein toleranteres	(keine) toleranteren
	genitive	eines toleranteren	einer toleranteren	eines toleranteren	(keiner) toleranteren
	dative	einem toleranteren	einer toleranteren	einem toleranteren	(keinen) toleranteren
	accusative	einen toleranteren	eine tolerantere	ein toleranteres	(keine) toleranteren

Superlative forms of tolerant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am tolerantesten	sie ist am tolerantesten	es ist am tolerantesten	sie sind am tolerantesten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	tolerantester	toleranteste	tolerantestes	toleranteste
	genitive	tolerantesten	tolerantester	tolerantesten	tolerantester
	dative	tolerantestem	tolerantester	tolerantestem	tolerantesten
	accusative	tolerantesten	toleranteste	tolerantestes	toleranteste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der toleranteste	die toleranteste	das toleranteste	die tolerantesten
	genitive	des tolerantesten	der tolerantesten	des tolerantesten	der tolerantesten
	dative	dem tolerantesten	der tolerantesten	dem tolerantesten	den tolerantesten
	accusative	den tolerantesten	die toleranteste	das toleranteste	die tolerantesten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein tolerantester	eine toleranteste	ein tolerantestes	(keine) tolerantesten
	genitive	eines tolerantesten	einer tolerantesten	eines tolerantesten	(keiner) tolerantesten
	dative	einem tolerantesten	einer tolerantesten	einem tolerantesten	(keinen) tolerantesten
	accusative	einen tolerantesten	eine toleranteste	ein tolerantestes	(keine) tolerantesten

Further reading

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

Latin

Verb

tolerant

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

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From French tolérant.

Adjective

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

1. tolerant

References

• “tolerant” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From French tolérant.

Adjective

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

1. tolerant

References

• “tolerant” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French tolérant.

Adjective

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

1. tolerant

Declension

Declension of tolerant

		singular				plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine		masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative- accusative	indefinite	tolerant		tolerantă		toleranți	tolerante
	definite	tolerantul		toleranta		toleranții	tolerantele
genitive- dative	indefinite	tolerant		tolerante		toleranți	tolerante
	definite	tolerantului		tolerantei		toleranților	tolerantelor

Related terms

• toleranță

Swedish

Adjective

tolerant (comparative tolerantare, superlative tolerantast)

1. tolerant

Declension

Inflection of tolerant

Indefinite	positive	comparative	superlative1
common singular	tolerant	tolerantare	tolerantast
neuter singular	tolerant	tolerantare	tolerantast
plural	toleranta	tolerantare	tolerantast
masculine plural2	tolerante	tolerantare	tolerantast
Definite	positive	comparative	superlative
masculine singular3	tolerante	tolerantare	tolerantaste
all	toleranta	tolerantare	tolerantaste

¹ The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
² Dated or archaic.
³ Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.

Antonyms

• intolerant

Related terms

• tolerans

References

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

Anagrams

• lotterna