Synonyms of forbearing

forbearing 1 of 2

adjective

as in patient

accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaint

she was inspired by the forbearing patients of the intensive care unit

Synonyms & Similar Words

• patient
• stoic
• obedient
• stoical
• passive
• uncomplaining
• long-suffering
• tolerant
• obliging
• subordinate
• willing
• collected
• lenient
• restrained
• acquiescent
• composed
• amiable
• resigned
• submissive
• docile
• placable
• complying
• tractable
• compliant
• repressed
• disciplined
• yielding
• conformist
• amenable
• agreeable
• subservient
• constrained
• slavish
• inhibited
• law-abiding
• contained
• unresponsive
• unresistant
• uncaring
• apathetic
• curbed
• self-controlled
• self-contained

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• impatient
• complaining
• protesting
• weary
• fed up
• tired
• resistant
• bored
• defiant
• kvetching
• contrary
• kvetchy
• disobedient
• refractory
• rebellious
• recalcitrant
• intractable
• insubordinate
• unmanageable
• unruly
• ungovernable

forbearing

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verb

present participle of forbear

as in avoiding

to resist the temptation of

she's old enough to make her own decisions, so we must forbear criticizing her taste in clothes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• avoiding
• keeping (from)
• foregoing
• denying
• withholding (from)
• refraining (from)
• abjuring
• refusing
• abstaining (from)
• forgoing
• shunning
• eschewing
• constraining
• curbing
• checking
• inhibiting
• rejecting
• combatting
• combating
• repudiating
• fighting
• bucking

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• submitting (to)
• yielding (to)
• bowing (to)
• surrendering (to)
• succumbing (to)
• giving in (to)
• conceding (to)
• acquiescing (to)
• capitulating
• knuckling under (to)