Antonyms for tolerate
ˈtɒl əˌreɪttol·er·ate

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1. tolerateverb

   Synonyms:
   brookEtymology 2, live with, put up with, allow, bear, endure

2. tolerateverb

   To allow (something that one dislikes or disagrees with) to exist or occur without interference.

   Synonyms:
   allow, put up with, live with, brookEtymology 2, endure, bear

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1. tolerate

   To abide is to remain continuously without limit of time unless expressed by the context: "to-day I must abide at thy house," Luke xix, 5; "a settled place for thee to abide in forever," 1 Kings viii, 13; "Abide with me! fast falls the eventide," Lyte Hymn. Lodge, sojourn, stay, tarry, and wait always imply a limited time; lodge, to pass the night; sojourn, to remain temporarily; live, dwell, reside, to have a permanent home. Stop, in the sense of stay or sojourn, is colloquial, and not in approved use. Compare ENDURE; REST.

   Antonyms:
   abandon, avoid, depart, forfeit, forfend, journey, migrate, move, proceed, reject, resist, shun

   Synonyms:
   abide, anticipate, await, bear, bide, confront, continue, dwell, endure, expect, inhabit, live, lodge, remain, reside, rest, sojourn, stay, stop, tarry, wait, watch

   Preposition:
   Abide in a place, for a time, with a person, by a statement.

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1. tolerate

   Antonyms:
   repel, disallow, prohibit, repudiate, reject, resist

   Synonyms:
   suffer, allow, permit, admit, bear, endure

Matched Categories

1. • Medicine
   • Permit
   • Respect
   • Suffer

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1. digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put upverb

   put up with something or somebody unpleasant

   "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage"

   Synonyms:
   bide, project, ache, hold out, run, endure, affirm, underpin, carry, stand up, assume, have, hold, last, sustain, confirm, fend, stay, weather, take over, go, jut, endorse, jut out, turn out, digest, deport, prevail, comport, set up, behave, die hard, pay, jump out, remain firm, offer, deliver, indorse, hurt, abide, condense, raise, fend for, back up, stomach, birth, patronage, stand out, live, contribute, stick out, meet, brook, expect, patronize, suffer, concentrate, protrude, acquit, substantiate, brave out, survive, domiciliate, get, put forward, stand, can, post, plunk for, persist, live on, have a bun in the oven, give birth, back, jump, allow, rear, lose, place upright, wear, house, contain, leap out, bear, patronise, subscribe, hold up, corroborate, provide, erect, defend, brave, put up, tin, keep going, accept, bear out, support, resist, plump for, nominate, yield, gestate, permit, conduct

2. tolerateverb

   recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others)

   "We must tolerate the religions of others"

   Synonyms:
   permit, suffer, allow, brook, abide, stomach, endure, stand, support, put up, digest, stick out, bear

3. tolerateverb

   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"

   Synonyms:
   permit, suffer, allow, brook, abide, stomach, endure, stand, support, put up, digest, stick out, bear

4. allow, permit, tolerateverb

   allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting

   "We don't allow dogs here"; "Children are not permitted beyond this point"; "We cannot tolerate smoking in the hospital"

   Synonyms:
   admit, put up, grant, set aside, stand, appropriate, abide, support, let, digest, suffer, brook, bear, give up, stick out, reserve, countenance, permit, provide, endure, leave, allow, stomach, take into account, allow for, earmark

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1. tolerateverb

   Synonyms:
   endure, suffer, brook, allow, permit, admit

How to use tolerate in a sentence?

1. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   In past weeks, including the past day, ministers Lapid and Livni have harshly attacked the government that I head. I will no longer tolerate an opposition inside the government.

2. Amos Guiora:

   It signals that we are not going to tolerate intolerance, we're not going to tolerate crimes committed in the name of religion.

3. Steven Spielberg:

   I couldn't imagine based on the story that we told that an audience would tolerate just the amount of violence, human against human. Or inhuman against human.

4. Doris Lessing:

   In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

5. James Dean:

   I’m a serious-minded and intense little devil, terribly gauche and so tense I don’t see how people stay in the same room with me. I know I wouldn’t tolerate myself.

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