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patience
noun as in capacity, willingness to endure
Strongest matches
composure, diligence, endurance, fortitude, grit, humility, moderation, perseverance, persistence, poise, restraint, self-control, tolerance
Strong matches
backbone, bearing, calmness, constancy, cool, equanimity, forbearance, guts, gutsiness, heart, imperturbability, legs, leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, moxie, nonresistance, passiveness, passivity, resignation, serenity, starch, stoicism, submission, sufferance, toleration, yielding
Weak matches
Example Sentences
With two or three games left in the Dodgers’ season, the time for patience has passed.
Cooper’s pacing requires patience, but rewards with the quiet pulse of something lived in and true.
The U.S. shipbuilding renaissance, notably for commodity tankers, will require strategic patience and industrial partnerships with capable allies, but it is essential to America’s economic security, energy independence, and global influence.
Rob Baxter has brought through a young squad and he is now bearing the fruits of his patience.
The question now is whether ordinary voters start feeling better off, or if the pain of some of his cuts tests people's patience once more.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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