Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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tolerant

UK /ˈtɒləɹənt/ · US /ˈtɑːləɹənt/ adjective, noun

Forms tolerants

  1. adjective Tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something. “He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.”
  2. adjective Tending to withstand or survive. “These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.”
  3. noun One who or that which tolerates something, especially a biological species.

Synonyms

forbearing lenient open-minded avuncular broad-minded catholic indulgent latitudinarian laissez faire liberal open-handed permissible permissive sufferable resistant patient kind broad large-minded patient of

Antonyms

close-minded intolerant strict antiliberal biased bigoted closed-minded illiberal jaundiced narrow-minded prejudiced sectarian

Etymology

Either borrowed from French tolérant or directly from its source Latin tolerans, present participle of, and participial adjective from tolerō (“to endure”).

Webster’s 1913

  1. adjective Inclined to tolerate; favoring toleration; forbearing; ingulgent.

Etymology [L. tolerans, p.pr. of tolerare to tolerate: cf. F. tolérant. See Tolerate.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “tolerant”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “tolerant” (best matches first).