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enduring

enduring

4.5
Patient and able to bear long hard times without complaint
  • adjective
  • /ɪnˈdʊrɪŋ/
translation icon : perseverante
  • Despite facing countless challenges, her enduring spirit continued to inspire those around her.

Examples

  • A major focus of the outreach strategy will be to better position the department to reach Vietnam veterans, Florida's largest veteran demographic; women veterans, who number more than 140,000; and younger, returning veterans, since more than 231,000 veterans of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom call Florida home.

    Blog text (7)

  • He showed an enduring patience as he helped his friend through difficult times.

  • I'm just sort of saying that we do have some enduring sort of character traits.

  • One, just because he's such an enduring, important figure, and two, because he has only come up on the show once.

  • And he really made you feel that and the enduring guilt even into adulthood.

  • Sects in India, including the Agoris, reveal its enduring power.

  • - Enduring and inescapable.

    Now, Voyager (1942)

  • The best answer to the contention that Dixie is dead is John Shelton Reed, The Enduring South: Subcultural Persistence in Mass Society (Lexington, Mass., 1972).

    Academic text (1993)

  • Her enduring love for her family kept her going through the hardest days.

Synonyms

long-suffering
vsenduring
4 6.2

Patiently accepting pain or trouble without complaining

refers to patient tolerance of continual wrongs or difficulties without complaint

Antonyms

impatient
97 2.8

Quickly annoyed when having to wait

complaining
3.7

A person who often says they are not happy about things

How Patient

stoic
20 7.0
enduring
4.5
patient
343 1.9
tolerant
72 3.2

Surface Forms

enduring positive

Morphology

enduring = endure (transparent) = endure + ing

Formed by the verb 'endure' + '-ing' as a participial adjective meaning 'able to bear/suffer', which is directly derivable from the verb.

Etymology

Enduring comes from the old Latin verb durare, meaning 'to make hard' or 'to last', and it shares the same root as durable. So an enduring person is like someone made 'hard' in a good way: they can bear trouble or pain without complaining.