tolerant

Questions about tolerant

What does tolerant mean?

tolerant means "showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tolerant?

tolerant has 3 syllables: to-le-rant. The stress falls on "to". In IPA it is /ˈtɑlɚənt/.

What is another word for tolerant?

Close synonyms include kind, broad, large-minded, liberal, resistant. 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.

What is the opposite of tolerant?

The recorded antonyms are intolerant.

Is tolerant a common word?

tolerant is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with tolerant?

1 word rhymes with tolerant. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.