tolerant
If you're tolerant it means that you accept people who are unlike you or put up with stuff you don't like. If you let your roommate play the same awful '80s mix over and over and don't say anything, you're probably a very tolerant person.
Broad-minded and open thinking is a hallmark of tolerant behavior. An individual can be tolerant, and so can a community or a nation if it accepts people from lots of different cultures or backgrounds. We generally think of tolerance as a good thing, but that doesn't mean being tolerant is easy — not with so many family members, classmates, and colleagues around to annoy us.
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showing or characterized by broad-mindedness“tolerant of his opponent's opinions”
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synonyms:
broad, large-minded, liberal
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broad-minded
inclined to respect views and beliefs that differ from your own
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broad-minded
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showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others
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synonyms:
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charitable
full of love and generosity
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patient
enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance
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unbigoted
not opinionated
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antonyms:
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intolerant
unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
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uncharitable
lacking love and generosity
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bigoted
blindly and obstinately attached to some creed or opinion and intolerant toward others
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rigid, strict
incapable of compromise or flexibility
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charitable
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showing the capacity for endurance“injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving”
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synonyms:
patient of
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patient
enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance
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patient
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tolerant and forgiving under provocation
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able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
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