Word Meanings - TOLERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. We tolerate

Additional info about word: TOLERATE

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. Crying should not be tolerated in children. Locke. We tolerate them because property and liberty, to a degree, require that toleration. Burke. Syn. -- See Permit. (more info) as tollere to lift up, tuli, used as perfect of ferre to bear, latus , used as p.p. of ferre to bear, and E. thole. See Thole, and cf. Atlas, Collation, Delay, Elate, Extol, Legislate, Oblate,

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of TOLERATE)

• Abide
• Dwell
• stay
• inhabit
• continue
• rest
• tarry
• lodge
• reside
• live
• wait
• sojourn
• remain
• expect
• endure
• tolerate
• anticipate
• confront
• await
• bear
• face
• watch
• Allow
• Concede
• apportion
• allot
• assign
• afford
• authorize
• grant
• remit
• recognize
• acknowledge
• avow
• confess
• admit
• permit
• suffer
• sanction
• yield
• Bear
• Carry
• lift
• transport
• convey
• maintain
• uphold
• undergo
• support
• waft
• sustain
• hold
• harbor
• entertain
• fill
• enact
• produce
• generate
• Suffer
• let
• allow
• experience

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of TOLERATE)

• Evade
• escape
• miss
• lose
• Eject
• expel
• discard
• discourage
• stifle
• exclude
• banish
• dismiss
• Drop
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• discontinue
• oppose
• weaken
• exhaust
• thwart
• discountenance
• disfavor
• subvert
• suppress

Related words: (words related to TOLERATE)

• CONFESSION
  The act of disclosing sins or faults to a priest in order to obtain sacramental absolution. Auricular confession . . . or the private and special confession of sins to a priest for the purpose of obtaining his absolution. Hallam. 4. A formulary
• ASSIGNEE
  In England, the persons appointed, under a commission of bankruptcy, to manage the estate of a bankrupt for the benefit of his creditors. (more info) A person to whom an assignment is made; a person appointed or deputed by another to do some act,
• MAINTAIN
  by the hand; main hand + F. tenir to hold . See 1. To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace;
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• SUSTAIN
  F. soutenir (the French prefix is properly fr. L. subtus below, fr. sub under), L. sustinere; pref. sus- + tenere to hold. See 1. To keep from falling; to bear; to uphold; to support; as, a foundation sustains the superstructure; a beast sustains
• INHABITATE
  To inhabit.
• SUPPORTABLE
  Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv.
• ADMITTER
  One who admits.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• EXPERIENCED
  Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye. The ablest and most experienced statesmen. Bancroft.
• EJECTOR
  A jet jump for lifting water or withdrawing air from a space. Ejector condenser , a condenser in which the vacuum is maintained by a jet pump. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, ejects or dispossesses.
• CONFRONT
  1. To stand facing or in front of; to face; esp. to face hostilely; to oppose with firmness. We four, indeed, confronted were with four In Russian habit. Shak. He spoke and then confronts the bull. Dryden. Hester caught hold of Pearl, and drew
• CONFESSER
  One who makes a confession.
• SUPPORTATION
  Maintenance; support. Chaucer. Bacon.
• PERMIT
  1. To consent to; to allow or suffer to be done; to tolerate; to put up with. What things God doth neither command nor forbid . . . he permitteth with approbation either to be done or left undone. Hooker. 2. To grant express license or liberty
• WATCHET
  Pale or light blue. "Watchet mantles." Spenser. Who stares in Germany at watchet eyes Dryden.
• INHABITATIVENESS
  A tendency or propensity to permanent residence in a place or abode; love of home and country.
• ENACTMENT
  1. The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law. 2. That which is enacted or passed into a law; a law; a decree; a statute; a prescribed requirement; as,
• ALLOTTABLE
  Capable of being allotted.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• DEJECTION
  1. A casting down; depression. Hallywell. 2. The act of humbling or abasing one's self. Adoration implies submission and dejection. Bp. Pearson. 3. Lowness of spirits occasioned by grief or misfortune; mental depression; melancholy. What besides,
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• CALLOW
  1. Destitute of feathers; naked; unfledged. An in the leafy summit, spied a nest, Which, o'er the callow young, a sparrow pressed. Dryden. 2. Immature; boyish; "green"; as, a callow youth. I perceive by this, thou art but a callow maid. Old Play .
• HALLOW
  To make holy; to set apart for holy or religious use; to consecrate; to treat or keep as sacred; to reverence. "Hallowed be thy name." Matt. vi. 9. Hallow the Sabbath day, to do no work therein. Jer. xvii. 24. His secret altar touched with hallowed
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• THRYFALLOW
  To plow for the third time in summer; to trifallow. Tusser.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• DEJECTORY
  1. Having power, or tending, to cast down. 2. Promoting evacuations by stool. Ferrand.
• INEXPECTABLE
  Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall.