Synonyms 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.

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

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

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

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1. tolerate

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

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

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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

Matched Categories

1. • Medicine
   • Permit
   • Respect
   • Suffer

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1. tolerateverb

   Synonyms:
   permit (as something unpleasant), allow, admit, indulge, receive

2. tolerateverb

   Synonyms:
   suffer, endure, abide, brook, put up with, bear with, take patiently or easily

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1. tolerateverb

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

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1. List of paraphrases for "tolerate":

   condone, tolerance, accept, countenance, allow, tolerated, endure

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1. Benjamin Netanyahu:

   Israel will not tolerate this. I will not tolerate this, and as we speak... Israel is responding forcefully to this wanton aggression.

2. Alan Marshall Beck:

   Boys are found everywhere-on top of, underneath, inside of, climbing on, swinging from, running around or jumping to. Mothers love them, little girls hate them, older sisters and brothers tolerate them, adults ignore them and Heaven protects them. A boy is Truth with dirt on its face, Beauty with a cut on its finger, Wisdom with bubble gum in its hair and the Hope of the future with a frog in its pocket.

3. George Dennison Prentice:

   We are in favor of tolerance, but it is a very difficult thing to tolerate the intolerant and impossible to tolerate the intolerable.

4. 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.

5. Anthony Foxx:

   What we cannot tolerate and will not tolerate is an automaker failing to report to us any recall issues.