tolerant

Adjective

• showing the capacity for endurance
  • injustice can make us tolerant and forgiving
    
  • a man patient of distractions
    

• able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress
  • the plant is tolerant of saltwater
    
  • these fish are quite tolerant as long as extremes of pH are avoided
    
  • the new hybrid is more resistant to drought
    

• showing or characterized by broad-mindedness
  • a broad political stance
    
  • generous and broad sympathies
    
  • a liberal newspaper
    
  • tolerant of his opponent's opinions
    

• tolerant and forgiving under provocation
  • our neighbor was very kind about the window our son broke
    

• showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  patient of , resistant , broad , large-minded , liberal , kind