tolerant
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4.4
- adjective
- /ˈtɑːlərənt/
- Specialized
- In Australia, field trials have been promising for insect-resistant cotton, drought-tolerant and salt-tolerant wheat, and boron-tolerant and fiber-enriched barley.
- shade-tolerant
- salt-tolerant
- drought-tolerant
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Examples
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"The University has a number of experimental projects, including work on UV-tolerant strains of corn."
Fiction book (1995) -
Black willow is the most flood-tolerant of trees in this category.
Academic text (2012) -
Those are very frost tolerant, very cold tolerant.
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This is the first one I planted with summer plants that are more tolerant of cold as well.
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So this, this is this approach has led to flood tolerant rice, which you can see here.
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They just are tough, cold tolerant, heat tolerant, they just are great here.
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The result is lower transmitted accelerations and a safer, more tolerant operating environment.
Academic text (1993) -
The government needs to, at a minimum, introduce and subsidize salt-tolerant agriculture technologies.
Academic text (2013) -
Where fire was common in a landscape, an abundant assortment of fire-tolerant species emerged over time.
Academic text (2008) -
These plants are very tolerant of drought and can survive long periods without water.
Synonyms
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1.7
Strong and able to resist damage or rough use
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3.9
Strong and able to work well in difficult conditions
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5.4
Able to recover quickly after problems or hard times
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3.9
Able to keep working when it meets heat, water, or chemicals
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3.9
Able to live and grow in cold or bad weather
Antonyms
How Tolerant
- Specialized
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4.1
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3.9
- Specialized
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4.4
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2.9
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4.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
tolerant = tolerate (transparent) = toler + ant
Formed from the verb 'tolerate' plus the adjectival suffix '-ant', with a regular orthographic change (loss of final -e).
Etymology
Tolerant comes from the old Latin word tolerare, which means 'to bear' or 'to endure'. So a tolerant plant or animal can 'bear' hard conditions like heat or drought without harm.