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Meaning of suffer fools gladly | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To be tolerant of stupidity or incompetence in other people.

idiomatic

Examples

“For ye ſuffre foles gladly be cauſe that ye youre ſelves are wyſe.”

“He [Henry Sweet] was, I believe, not in the least an illnatured man: very much the opposite, I should say; but he would not suffer fools gladly.”

CEFR level

C1

Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

See also

suffer from suffer in silence suffer'd suffered suffered fools gladly suffered from