tolerate

Verb

Verb Forms: tolerated, tolerating, tolerates

• To allow or permit something to exist or happen without opposition.
• put up with something or somebody unpleasant
  • "he learned to tolerate the heat"
• recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others)
  • "We must tolerate the religions of others"
• 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"
• allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
  • "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"
• To allow or permit without explicit approval, usually if it is perceived as negative.
• To bear, withstand.

Examples

• I can tolerate working on Saturday, but not Sunday.
• One must tolerate the occasional Q-without-U plays in Words With Friends, especially if they score big.
• The elevator can tolerate up to 360 kilograms.
• The party tolerated corruption within its ranks.

Synonyms

abide, allow, bear, brook, digest, endure, permit, put up, stand, stick out, stomach, suffer, support, abear, aby, accept, bide, countenance, dree, forbear, go along with, have, live with, pass, pocket, pouch, put up with, stick, swallow, take, take sitting down, thole, tolerate, undergang, undergo

Antonyms

chafe, discriminate, lose one's temper, prohibit, rage, snap

Related Words

tolerability, tolerable, tolerance, tolerant, toleration