tolerate
verb
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 verb
put up with something or somebody unpleasant
I cannot bear his constant criticism
Types & categories
- permit hypernym
- live with hyponym
- hold still for hyponym
- bear up hyponym
- take lying down hyponym
- take a joke hyponym
- sit out hyponym
- pay hyponym
Related & opposite
- abidance derivation
- tolerance derivation
- toleration derivation
- endurance derivation
- tolerant derivation
- patient of derivation
- bearable derivation
- suffer verb group
Sense 2 verb
recognize and respect (rights and beliefs of others)
We must tolerate the religions of others
Types & categories
- respect hypernym
Related & opposite
- toleration derivation
- liberal derivation
- tolerant derivation
Sense 3 verb
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
Types & categories
- suffer hypernym
Related & opposite
- medicine domain topic
Sense 4 verb
allow the presence of or allow (an activity) without opposing or prohibiting
We don't allow dogs here
Types & categories
- permit hypernym
Related & opposite
- permission derivation
- allowance derivation
- leeway derivation
- license derivation
- permissive derivation
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | abidance |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tolerance |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | toleration |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | endurance |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | tolerant |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | patient of |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | bearable |
| 1 | verb group | Related & opposite | suffer |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | permit |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | live with |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | hold still for |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | bear up |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | take lying down |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | take a joke |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | sit out |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | pay |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | toleration |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | liberal |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | tolerant |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | respect |
| 3 | domain topic | Related & opposite | medicine |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | suffer |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | permission |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | allowance |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | leeway |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | license |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | permissive |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | permit |