What does tolerant mean?
Word: Tolerant
Part of Speech: Adjective
Meaning: Tolerant means willing to accept people whose ideas, ways or beliefs are different from yours. It also means able to put up with something hard, such as heat, cold or pain.
Synonyms: patient, accepting, open-minded
How do you spell tolerant?
Syllables: tol - er - ant
Tricky part: It ends in ant, not ent. Tolerance follows the same pattern with ance.
Watch out for: tolerent, tolarant, tolerunt
Memory tip: If you can spell tolerance, you can spell tolerant: the same a comes before the n in both.
Tolerant in a sentence
Example 1: Our teacher is tolerant of mistakes as long as we keep trying.
Example 2: A good umpire is tolerant of noisy fans but strict about the rules.
Example 3: Living with many cousins taught Aarav to be tolerant.
Fun Fact
The United Nations marks 16 November every year as the International Day for Tolerance, a day for respect between people of different cultures.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the prefix that completes the word:
tolerant
a) in
b) dis
c) im
d) un
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a) in. In makes the opposite here, intolerant, just as in turns complete into incomplete.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) genrous
b) pateint
c) respectfull
d) tolerant
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d) tolerant. Patient has ie, generous keeps its e and respectful has one l, so tolerant is the word to choose.
Word Cookie
Find the extra letter in the word:
tollerant
a) l
b) r
c) e
d) o
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a) l. Tolerant has a single l, the same as tolerate.
Word Connection
Choose the antonym of the word:
tolerant
a) soft-spoken
b) kind-hearted
c) hard-working
d) narrow-minded
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d) narrow-minded. A narrow-minded person will not accept other views, the opposite of a tolerant one.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is being tolerant?
a) Ravi, refusing to share the swings
b) Ravi, shouting when others disagree
c) Ravi, listening calmly to a different opinion
d) Ravi, laughing at someone's accent
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c) Ravi, listening calmly to a different opinion
2. A plant that is tolerant of dry weather is one that ____.
a) grows only in marshes
b) dies once the soil dries
c) copes well with little rain
d) needs watering every hour
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c) copes well with little rain
