Synonyms for indulgent
- adjective
All synonyms
Adjective
1. Lenient
lenient, gentle, soft, mild, lax, permissive, tolerant, relaxed, forbearing, kind, compliant, forgiving, clement, broad-minded, open-minded, easy, liberal, merciful, charitable, patient, yielding, favorable US, favourable UK
Definitions
- adj. 1
Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing.
to be indulgent to servants
Example sentences
- gentle A noble man by woman's gentle word may oft be led.
- lax Better short and sweet, than long and lax.
- lenient Whoever is lenient with the wicked harms the good.
- permissive Mary's parents were very permissive.
- voluptuous Layla turned into a voluptuous teenager.
By length
- 3 letters
- lax1
- 4 letters
- kind1, easy2, soft1, mild1, fond1
- 6 letters
- gentle2
- 7 letters
- patient2, liberal3, relaxed2, clement2, lenient3
- 8 letters
- tolerant3, yielding2, merciful3
- 9 letters
- favorable4, forgiving3, compliant3, avuncular4
- 10 letters
- charitable4, favourable, permissive3, voluptuous4, forbearing
- 11 letters
- intemperate4
- 13 letters
- overindulgent
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (easy2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- indulgent
- Italiano
- indulgente
- Deutsch
- nachsichtig