Synonyms for indulge
ɪnˈdʌldʒin·dulge

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:1.3 / 3 votes

1. indulgeverb

   , : To yield to a temptation or desire.

   Synonyms:
   spoil, coddle, cosset, pamper

2. indulgeverb

   To satisfy the wishes or whims of.

   Synonyms:
   coddle, pamper, spoil, cosset

3. indulgeverb

   To grant an extension to the deadline of a payment.

   Synonyms:
   spoil, cosset, pamper, coddle

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.8 / 6 votes

1. indulge

   Synonyms:
   spoil, pamper, humor, gratify, cherish, bask, revel, grovel, foster, favor, allow

   Antonyms:
   thwart, deny, contradict, disappoint, discard, abjure, counteract, renounce, mortify, discipline

Princeton's WordNetRate these synonyms:1.5 / 2 votes

1. indulgeverb

   give free rein to

   "The writer indulged in metaphorical language"

   Synonyms:
   pander, mollycoddle, cosset, luxuriate, spoil, baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, gratify, pamper

2. gratify, pander, indulgeverb

   yield (to); give satisfaction to

   Synonyms:
   pander, mollycoddle, cosset, luxuriate, satisfy, gratify, indulge, spoil, procure, baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, pimp, pamper

3. indulge, luxuriateverb

   enjoy to excess

   "She indulges in ice cream"

   Synonyms:
   pander, mollycoddle, cosset, luxuriate, spoil, indulge, wanton, baby, cocker, coddle, featherbed, gratify, pamper

4. pamper, featherbed, cosset, cocker, baby, coddle, mollycoddle, spoil, indulgeverb

   treat with excessive indulgence

   "grandparents often pamper the children"; "Let's not mollycoddle our students!"

   Synonyms:
   pamper, frustrate, scotch, botch, bilk, baby, itch, bungle, muck up, impair, mishandle, bumble, plunder, gratify, botch up, foil, blow, go bad, flub, fumble, vitiate, rape, thwart, ball up, featherbed, bollocks up, bollocks, screw up, baffle, mess up, luxuriate, despoil, deflower, louse up, bollix, mar, indulge, muff, violate, pander, cocker, foul up, cross, fluff, mollycoddle, bobble, coddle, bollix up, cosset, spoil, corrupt, bodge

Matched Categories

1. • Consume
   • Provide

Dictionary of English SynonymesRate these synonyms:2.0 / 4 votes

1. indulgeverb

   Synonyms:
   gratify, favor, humor, cherish, pamper, COCKER, give free scope to, give a loose rein to, give way to, give one's self up to

2. indulgeverb

   Synonyms:
   allow, permit, suffer

3. indulgeverb

   Synonyms:
   indulge one's self

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:3.3 / 3 votes

1. indulgeverb

   Synonyms:
   satisfy, gratify, luxuriate, humor, pamper, cocker, grant, allow, permit

   Antonyms:
   mortify, deny, suppress, restrain

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How to use indulge in a sentence?

1. Noah Rothman:

   These are comforting fictions that a lot on the right want to indulge in, ted Cruz, in that sense, is making the best of an opportunity.

2. Samuel Johnson:

   When once a man has made celebrity necessary to his happiness, he has put it in the power of the weakest and most timorous malignity, if not to take away his satisfaction, at least to withhold it. His enemies may indulge their pride by airy negligence and gratify their malice by quiet neutrality.

3. Patrick Henry:

   It is natural for a man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut out eyes against a painful truth and listen to the song of that siren, till she transforms into beasts.

4. George S. Patton:

   Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

5. Sophie Scholl:

   “The more they lack material things, the more they indulge themselves when they can, but the less is their satisfaction with this world and they hunger for life after death(on Russian slave laborers.)”