Forbearance Synonyms and Antonyms

fôr-bârəns
The capacity of enduring hardship or inconvenience without complaint
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. long-suffering
  2. patience
  3. resignation
  4. tolerance
Forbearing or lenient treatment
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. patience
  2. tolerance
  3. abstinence
  4. indulgence
  5. leniency
  6. lenity
  7. toleration
  8. longanimity
  9. restraint
  10. charitableness
  11. charity
  12. clemency
  13. self-control
  14. compassion
  15. lenience
  16. fortitude
  17. long-suffering
  18. mercy
  19. moderation
  20. refraining
  21. resignation
  22. withholding

Words Related to Forbearance

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Forbearance Sentence Examples

  • He treated them all with forbearance, and it is said that when the correspondence of Cassius was brought him he burnt it without reading it.

  • He was merciful as a conqueror, stern as a disciplinarian, enterprising and wary as a general; while his courage, loyalty and forbearance seem to have been almost unsullied.

  • Forbearance doesn't change the amount of money you owe to creditors.

  • A forbearance agreement was not followed by the servicer.

  • They spoke, therefore, of Mrs. Churchill's death with mutual forbearance.

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