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forbearingadjective accepting pains or hardships calmly or without complaintshe was inspired by the forbearing patients of the intensive care unit long-suffering, patient, stoic(or stoical), tolerant, uncomplaining lenientacquiescent, passive, resigned, unresistant, yieldingagreeable, amenable, compliant, complying, conformist, docile, law-abiding, obedient, placable, submissive, subordinate, tractable, willingslavish, subservientamiable, obligingcollected, composedconstrained, contained, curbed, inhibited, repressed, restraineddisciplined, self-contained, self-controlledapathetic, uncaring, unresponsive complaining, fed up, impatient, kvetching, kvetchy, protesting bored, tired, wearydefiant, resistantcontrary, disobedient, insubordinate, intractable, rebellious, recalcitrant, refractory, ungovernable, unmanageable, unruly forbearingverbpresent participle of forbearto resist the temptation ofshe's old enough to make her own decisions, so we must forbear criticizing her taste in clothes abjuring, abstaining (from), forgoing(also foregoing), keeping (from), refraining (from), withholding (from) avoiding, eschewing, shunningchecking, constraining, curbing, inhibitingdenying, refusing, rejecting, repudiatingbucking, combating(or combatting), fighting bowing (to), giving in (to), submitting (to), succumbing (to), surrendering (to), yielding (to) acquiescing (to), capitulating, conceding (to), knuckling under (to) |