tolerant

tolerant
    adj 1: showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices
           of others [ant: {intolerant}]
    2: tolerant and forgiving under provocation; "our neighbor was
       very kind about the window our son broke" [syn: {kind},
       {tolerant}]
    3: showing or characterized by broad-mindedness; "a broad
       political stance"; "generous and broad sympathies"; "a
       liberal newspaper"; "tolerant of his opponent's opinions"
       [syn: {broad}, {large-minded}, {liberal}, {tolerant}]
    4: 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" [syn: {tolerant},
       {resistant}]
    5: showing the capacity for endurance; "injustice can make us
       tolerant and forgiving"; "a man patient of distractions"
       [syn: {tolerant}, {patient of}]
    

Tolerant \Tol"er*ant\, a. [L. tolerans, p. pr. of tolerare to
   tolerate: cf. F. tol['e]rant. See {Tolerate}.]
   Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing;
   indulgent.
   [1913 Webster]
    

83 Moby Thesaurus words for "tolerant":
      Spartan, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, admissive,
      advanced, agreeable, allowing, armed with patience, attentive,
      benevolent, broad, broad-minded, catholic, charitable, clement,
      compassionate, complaisant, conciliatory, consenting, considerate,
      delicate, disciplined, dispassionate, easy, easygoing, endurant,
      enduring, fair, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, freethinking,
      generous, gentle, heedful, helpful, humane, indulgent, kind,
      latitudinarian, lax, lenient, liberal, libertarian, libertine,
      long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, merciful, mild, mindful,
      mindful of others, moderate, nonprohibitive, objective, obliging,
      open-minded, patient, patient as Job, permissive, permitting,
      persevering, philosophical, placable, regardful, self-controlled,
      soft, solicitous, sparing, stoic, suffering, tactful, tender,
      thoughtful, tolerating, tolerative, unbigoted, understanding,
      unprejudiced, unprohibitive, unresentful, unrevengeful