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Definition of Tolerate
1. Verb. Put up with something or somebody unpleasant. "Sam cannot tolerate Sue "; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"
Specialized synonyms: Accept, Live With, Swallow, Hold Still For, Stand For, Bear Up, Take Lying Down, Take A Joke, Sit Out, Pay
Generic synonyms: Allow, Countenance, Let, Permit
Related verbs: Suffer
Derivative terms: Abidance, Bearable, Endurance, Sufferance, Tolerance, Tolerant, Tolerant, Toleration
2. Verb. Recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others). "We must tolerate the religions of others"
Derivative terms: Tolerant, Tolerant, Toleration
3. Verb. Have a tolerance for a poison or strong drug or pathogen or environmental condition. "The patient does not tolerate the anti-inflammatory drugs we gave him"
4. Verb. Allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting. "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"
Generic synonyms: Allow, Countenance, Let, Permit
Derivative terms: Allowance, Allowance, Permissive, Permit, Permit
Definition of Tolerate
1. v. t. 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; as, to tolerate doubtful practices.
Definition of Tolerate
1. Verb. To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tolerate
1. to allow without active opposition [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolerate
Literary usage of Tolerate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin (1896)
"tolerate no uncleanliness in body, clothes, or habitation. ii. TRANQUILLITY.
Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable. 12. ..."
2. A Diary in America: With Remarks on Its Institutions. by Frederick Marryat (1839)
"... not tolerate much longer the being made the sport of parties at home, and that
if the mother-country forgets what is due to the loyal and enterprizing ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1887)
"... power at the present moment. if he felt himself governed, the Frenchman would
tolerate the worst if he were quite sure of being taken care of. ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"... submit—nor do we believe that any Bother European nation, however jealous they
might be of us, would tolerate such a disruption of the ties of public ..."
5. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1893)
"How does the wife tolerate the presence of the concubine ? In the majority of
cases, very well ; for but few Japanese wives expect absolute loyalty on the ..."
6. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"not tolerate any interference with us. I breath more easily about this than ever.
My main anxiety is about the Alabama case, which has been the subject of ..."
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