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put up with meaning and examples

2025-09-28

Meaning

  • Put up with means to tolerate or endure something unpleasant, difficult, or annoying without complaining or stopping it.

Grammar and Usage

  • Verb type: Phrasal verb (inseparable).

  • Structure: subject + put up with + object

    • Example: She puts up with his bad habits.

  • The object comes after "with" (cannot be placed between "put" and "up").

Common Phrases

  • put up with noise
  • put up with rude behavior
  • put up with stress
  • put up with inconvenience

Collocations

  • Verb + put up with: have to put up with, can’t put up with
  • Noun + put up with: patience to put up with, ability to put up with
  • Adverb + put up with: hardly put up with, unwillingly put up with

Examples

  1. I can’t put up with this noise any longer.
  2. She has to put up with long hours at work.
  3. We put up with the delay because we had no choice.
  4. He won’t put up with rude comments from strangers.
  5. I don’t know how she puts up with his laziness.
  6. They put up with uncomfortable conditions during the trip.
  7. He refused to put up with unfair treatment.
  8. I had to put up with the heat all day.
  • tolerate
  • endure
  • bear
  • live with
  • accept

Antonym

  • reject
  • resist
  • avoid
  • refuse to accept