patient of

1. 1.

   showing the capacity for endurance

   “injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving”

   “a man patient of distractions”

   Synonymstolerant

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Questions about patient of

What does patient of mean?

patient of means "showing the capacity for endurance".

What is another word for patient of?

Close synonyms include tolerant. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patient of a common word?

patient of is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.