Forbearance

English

Noun

Forbearance (plural Forbearances)

1. Restraint under provocation.
2. A refraining from the enforcement of something (as a debt, right, or obligation) that is due.

Adjectives for Forbearance

friendly; generous; unusual; wonderful; abounding; systematic; passive; unexpected; affectionate; good-natured; gentle.

Verbs for Forbearance

admire—; commend—; conduct with—; end—; endure with—; excel in—; extort—; feign—; indulge in—; justify—; laud—; learn—; occasion—; practise—; praise—; pretend—; submit with—; suffer—; treat with—; —surprises.

Synonyms for Forbearance

patience, tolerance, leniency, fortitude.

Antonyms for Forbearance

haste, impatience, intolerance, strictness.

Related terms

• forbear

Thesaurus

abandonment, abeyance, abjuration, abjurement, abnegation, acceptance, avoidance, avoiding reaction, benevolence, cessation, charitableness, charity, circumvention, clemency, clementness, cold storage, commiseration, compassion, condolence, condonation, constraint, defense mechanism, denial, desistance, discontinuance, disregard, dodge, duck, easiness, easygoingness, elusion, elusiveness, endurance, equivocation, escape, evasion, evasive action, evasiveness, favor, feeling, forbearing, forbearingness, forestalling, forestallment, forgiveness, forgivingness, fortitude, frugality, generousness, gentleness, getting around, golden mean, grace, humaneness, humanity, indulgence, jink, kindness, laxness, lenience, leniency, lenientness, lenity, long-sufferance, long-suffering, longanimity, magnanimity, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, mitigation, moderateness, moderation, neutrality, nonexercise, nonintervention, noninvolvement, nothing in excess, overlooking, pardon, pathos, patience, patience of Job, patientness, permissiveness, perseverance, pity, prevention, quarter, refraining, relief, relinquishment, renouncement, renunciation, reprieve, resignation, restraint, ruth, self-control, self-denial, self-discipline, self-mastery, self-pity, self-restraint, shunning, shunting off, shy, sidestep, sidetracking, slip, soberness, sobriety, softness, sophrosyne, stoicism, sufferance, suspension, sweet reasonableness, sympathy, temperance, temperateness, tenderness, the runaround, thoughtful, tolerance, toleration, uncomplainingness, unrevengefulness, waiting game, waiting it out, waiver, zigzag

Etymology

From forbear.

Translations

restraint under provocation

Czech: zdrženlivost (cs) f.

not enforcing something due

Czech: shovívavost f.

External links

• Forbearance in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Forbearance in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• Forbearance at OneLook Dictionary Search