ADJECTIVE
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showing patient and unruffled self-control and restraint under adversity; slow to retaliate or express resentment
seemly and forbearing...yet strong enough to resist aggression
was longanimous in the face of suffering
How To Use forbearing In A Sentence
- You come along with me and I'll introduce you (he's not what you call a refined sort of feller, yer know, 'he explained forbearingly,' but still we've always been friends in a way); you can't stop? The Giant's Robe
- I hereby make a vow, not to cheat, but to win quizzes here on in on my wit and intelligence alone, forbearing all use of my fox-like cunning.
- ‘I believe that is his daughter's name,’ replied the man with forbearing patience as he ran his eyes up the mast.
- Andrea wasn't the sort to nag, rather such a quiet, forbearing type that people would hold her up as an example.
- John Kidd is to be commended generally, and specifically for forbearing to anagrammatize Gabler's name as Gartle. 'The Scandal of Ulysses': An Exchange
- she was unforbearing with the slower students
- If we are very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all.
- I am a forbearing man, and I am still waiting for your answer to my proposal.
- Thank you for being so forbearing.
- He was surprisingly forbearing about the fight Joe got into, much to Joe's astonishment.
