Agreeable vs Tolerant - What's the difference?
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Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
* (rfdate) (Oliver Goldsmith):
(colloquial) Willing; ready to agree or consent.
* (rfdate) (Hugh Latimer):
Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; .
* (rfdate) (w, Roger L'Estrange):
In pursuance, conformity, or accordance; (used adverbially)
Something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.
* 1855 , Blackwood's magazine (volume 77, page 331)
tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something
tending to withstand or survive
As adjectives the difference between agreeable and tolerant
is that agreeable is pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful while tolerant is tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something.As a noun agreeable
is something pleasing; anything that is agreeable.agreeable
English
(Webster 1913)Adjective
(en adjective)- agreeable manners
- agreeable remarks
- an agreeable person
- fruit agreeable to the taste
- A train of agreeable reveries.
- These Frenchmen give unto the said captain of Calais a great sum of money, so that he will be but content and agreeable that they may enter into the said town.
- That which is agreeable to the nature of one thing, is many times contrary to the nature of another.
- Agreeable to the order of the day, the House took up the report.
Synonyms
*Noun
(en noun)- The disagreeables of travelling are necessary evils, to be encountered for the sake of the agreeables of resting and looking round you.
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* *tolerant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.
- These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.