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Synonyms for patience
ˈpeɪ ʃənspa·tience

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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.2 / 5 votes

  1. patience

    Patience is the quality or habit of mind shown in bearing passively and uncomplainingly any pain, evil, or hardship that may fall to one's lot. Endurance hardens itself against suffering, and may be merely stubborn; fortitude is endurance animated by courage; endurance may by modifiers be made to have a passive force, as when we speak of "passive endurance;" patience is not so hard as endurance nor so self-effacing as submission. Submission is ordinarily and resignation always applied to matters of great moment, while patience may apply to slight worries and annoyances. As regards our relations to our fellow men, forbearance is abstaining from retaliation or revenge; patience is keeping kindliness of heart under vexatious conduct; long-suffering is continued patience. Patience may also have an active force denoting uncomplaining steadiness in doing, as in tilling the soil. Compare INDUSTRY.

    See synonyms for ANGER.

    Synonyms:
    calmness, composure, endurance, forbearance, fortitude, leniency, long-suffering, resignation, submission, sufferance

    Preposition:
    Patience in or amid sufferings; patience with (rarely toward) opposers or offenders; patience under afflictions; (rarely) patience of heat or cold, etc.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms2.5 / 2 votes

  1. patience

    Synonyms:
    endurance, resignation, submission, perseverance

    Antonyms:
    resistance, unsubmissiveness, repining, rebellion, inconsistency, impatience

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  1. patience, forbearance, longanimitynoun

    good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

    Synonyms:
    forbearance, solitaire, longanimity

    Antonyms:
    impatience

  2. solitaire, patiencenoun

    a card game played by one person

    Synonyms:
    forbearance, solitaire, longanimity

    Antonyms:
    impatience

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Editors Contribution0.0 / 0 votes

  1. long suffering

    to suffer long is to be patient.

    waiting patiently

    Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  
  2. orimi

    Submitted by anonymous on June 18, 2020  

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. patiencenoun

    Synonyms:
    endurance (without complaint), fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, long-sufferance, long-suffering

  2. patiencenoun

    Synonyms:
    perseverance, persistence, indefatigableness, constancy, diligence, assiduity

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words5.0 / 2 votes

  1. patiencenoun

    Synonyms:
    long-suffering, fortitude, resignation, submission, sufferance, indulgence, leniency, forbearance, persistence, diligence, perseverance

    Antonyms:
    impatience, restiveness, resistance

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "patience":

    patient, forbearance, indulgence, impatience, sabra

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How to use patience in a sentence?

  1. Roger Barron:

    Patience isn’t what it used to be. Kindness just isn’t there. Not everyone is that way, but you see it more, and there never is a point where you threaten physical violence to any coach, player, or referee. It’s still a game, and we should be teaching our kids good sportsmanship and good citizenship.

  2. Democratic Rep. Peter DeFazio:

    Roseburg is a small, tight-knit community, it’ll take time and our patience as they grieve and recover. We call that UCC Strong. Roseburg strong.

  3. Christine Fowler-Binder:

    Garrett is, or was, the most selfless person I knew. Always there as kind of my confidante, my brother, he put up with me. I kind of was pushing him probably over the edge at times, and he always had the patience to calm me down, and Kurt Aichele know we worked together like brother and sister would.

  4. Thomas Fuller:

    All commend patience, but none can endure to suffer.

  5. Sipho P Nkosi:

    Before the doors to your wishes is opened. Your patience and strength will be tested by the universe.


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