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Tolerant vs Conciliatory - What's the difference?

tolerant | conciliatory | Related terms |

As adjectives the difference between tolerant and conciliatory

is that tolerant is tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something while conciliatory is willing to conciliate, or to make concessions.

tolerant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something
    • He's pretty tolerant of different political views, but don't ask him about religion.
  • tending to withstand or survive
    • These plants are tolerant of drought and sunlight.

    Related terms

    * tolerability * tolerable * tolerance * tolerate * toleration

    External links

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    conciliatory

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • willing to conciliate, or to make concessions
  • * 2013 June 18, , " Protests Widen as Brazilians Chide Leaders," New York Times (retrieved 21 June 2013):
    • Shaken by the biggest challenge to their authority in years, Brazil’s leaders made conciliatory gestures on Tuesday to try to defuse the protests engulfing the nation’s cities.

    Antonyms

    * unconciliatory

    Derived terms

    * conciliatoriness