Tolerant vs Reluctant - What's the difference?
tolerant | reluctant |
tending to permit, allow, understand, or accept something
tending to withstand or survive
Opposing; offering resistance (to).
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.108:
* 2008 , Kern Alexander et al., The World Trade Organization and Trade in Services , p. 222:
Not wanting to take some action; unwilling.
As adjectives the difference between tolerant and reluctant
is that tolerant is tolerant while reluctant is opposing; offering resistance (to).As a verb tolerant
is .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.
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* * * ----reluctant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There, breathless, with his digging nails he clung / Fast to the sand, lest the returning wave, / From whose reluctant roar his life he wrung, / Should suck him back to her insatiate grave [...].
- They are reluctant to the inclusion of a necessity test, especially of a horizontal nature, and emphasize, instead, the importance of procedural disciplines [...].
- She was reluctant to lend him the money
