forbearing in English

adjective

1

(of a person) patient and restrained.

You're surrounded by amazingly patient, forbearing people, especially your parents.

synonyms: patient, tolerant, easygoing, lenient, clement, forgiving, understanding, accommodating, indulgent, long-suffering, resigned, stoic, restrained, self-controlled

verb

1

politely or patiently restrain an impulse to do something; refrain.

the boy forbore from touching anything

synonyms: refrain from, abstain from, desist from, keep from, restrain oneself from, stop oneself from, hold back from, withhold from, resist the temptation to (be), eschew, avoid, decline to (be)

adjective

• patient, tolerant, easygoing, lenient, clement, forgiving, understanding, accommodating, indulgent, long-suffering, resigned, stoic, restrained, self-controlled

verb

• refrain from, abstain from, desist from, keep from, restrain oneself from, stop oneself from, hold back from, withhold from, resist the temptation to (be), eschew, avoid, decline to (be)
• refrain
• hold back

Use "forbearing" in a sentence

1. Please have a forbearing heart.

2. Thank you for being so forbearing.

3. I have been so far forbearing with you.

4. He would still be placid , good - tempered and forbearing.

5. Translators have used such words as “gentle,” “forbearing,” and “considerate.”

6. Are not the forbearing creditors equally defrauded in either case?

7. He has a forbearing nature; he accepts trouble with a smile.

8. The vicar praised what he called her "kind and forbearing nature".

9. I found him a very patient, very forbearing, and yet an exacting master.

10. His wife has a forbearing nature; she accepts trouble with a smile.

11. Carlos was tactful and forbearing even when I was impatient and angry.

12. Synonyms for Condoning include approving, tolerating, indulgent, lenient, permissive, forgiving, clement, liberal, forbearing and sympathetic

13. It is good to them forbearing and puts up with what they do.

14. Be humble, be harmless, gave no pretension, be upright, forbearing, serve you teacher in true obedience.

15. The words “continue putting up with” render a Greek word that suggests being tolerant or forbearing.

16. The boy gazed back sweetly, forbearing from touching anything, and daring anyone to challenge his intentions.

17. KJV By long forbearing is a prince persuaded, and a soft tongue breaketh the bone.

18. Synonyms for Abstaining include avoiding, desisting, eschewing, forbearing, refraining, renouncing, shunning, declining, forgoing and keeping

19. It is the responsibility of parents to teach their children to be polite , courteous, and forbearing.

20. John Kidd is to be commended generally, and specifically for forbearing to Anagrammatize Gabler's name as Gartle

21. But part of him, something of his character that had been forbearing and unassailable, had let him down.

22. The influence of the air velocity on thermal comfort is obvious, the people in Chongqing are more forbearing to the draught than other areas because of its mugginess and aquosity.