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Synonyms for indulgent
ɪnˈdʌl dʒəntin·dul·gent
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indulgentadjective
Synonyms:
gentle, tolerant, forbearing, lenientindulgentadjective
Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or give way to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing; showing or ready to show favor; favorable; indisposed to be severe or harsh, or to exercise necessary restraint: as, an indulgent parent; to be indulgent to servants.
Synonyms:
lenient, gentle, tolerant, forbearing
English Synonyms and Antonyms
indulgent
Synonyms:
amiable, benignant, bland, complaisant, friendly, genial, gentle, good-natured, kind, loving, mild, pleasant, sympathetic, tenderAntonyms:
acrimonious, churlish, crabbed, crusty, dogged, gloomy, gruff, ill-humored, ill-natured, morose, severe, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly
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Princeton's WordNet
indulgentadjective
characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
"indulgent grandparents"
Antonyms:
disciplinary, spartan, disciplinal, austere, unfavourable, blue(a), puritanical, renunciant, strict, severe, self-disciplined, nonindulgent, unpermissive, unfavorable, monkish, puritanic, renunciative, corrective, stern, self-restraining, self-abnegating, self-denyingindulgent, lenient, softadjective
tolerant or lenient
"indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "too soft on the children"; "they are soft on crime"
Synonyms:
cushy, mild, easy, piano, balmy, lenient, voiced, soft, delicate, flabby, subdued, diffuse, flaccid, gentle, sonant, easygoing, diffusedAntonyms:
renunciative, self-restraining, unpermissive, disciplinary, renunciant, unfavourable, spartan, stern, self-disciplined, nonindulgent, strict, monkish, blue(a), austere, corrective, unfavorable, puritanical, disciplinal, puritanic, self-abnegating, self-denying, severeindulgentadjective
being favorably inclined
"an indulgent attitude"
Antonyms:
puritanical, strict, monkish, austere, corrective, unpermissive, nonindulgent, spartan, renunciative, stern, self-denying, severe, disciplinal, unfavourable, renunciant, disciplinary, self-abnegating, blue(a), self-disciplined, puritanic, unfavorable, self-restraining
Dictionary of English Synonymes
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
indulgentadjective
Synonyms:
forbearing, kind, lenient, lax, merciful
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "indulgent":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#621 | easy | |
#1139 | kind | |
#1254 | friendly | |
#2052 | soft | |
#3763 | piano | |
#5538 | pleasant | |
#6100 | loving | |
#6740 | tender | |
#7995 | compliant | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#8164 | mild | |
#11658 | delicate | |
#16820 | tolerant | |
#16921 | sympathetic | |
#19568 | diffuse | |
#19975 | bland | |
#20779 | voiced | |
#30789 | subdued | |
#31395 | forgiving | |
#41963 | indulgent | |
#44531 | complacent | |
#45074 | diffused | |
#49126 | amiable | |
#54137 | lenient | |
#57508 | genial | |
#65132 | balmy | |
#71236 | easygoing | |
#77557 | flabby | |
#79791 | cushy | |
#80713 | flaccid | |
#206101 | forbearing | |
#293856 | complaisant | |
#297352 | benignant |
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Finding the motivation was really about giving myself the permission to write. For me and for other veterans, it’s something we have to overcome in terms of drawing attention to ourselves or doing anything that we might perceive as selfish or self-indulgent, it’s something that I owe to the men and women that I served with and the awesome people that have come into my life. I owe it to them to share this story.
I went to the president of my record company, who's a man who genuinely likes music. And I said,' Look, I made all these records for you... I'm going to do this just for me, this might be self-indulgent -- if it sells two copies, I don't care. But if I can't record this music, I'm going to die.
We all love treats, we all love indulgent foods. But those occasional foods really need to be once or twice a week — they don’t need to be a habit.
Lucky’s is an interesting company with a concept that checks almost every box from what people want in a food store today, it plays to the foodie trend of fresh, lively and somewhat indulgent selections; it emphasizes fresh foods at value pricing; and it’s small and easy to shop in, not loaded with aisle after aisle of branded packaged goods in multiple sizes like a traditional supermarket.
Everyone on that Zoom will agree that his tone was all wrong and his sole purpose was to intimidate, really appalling behavior. And this insinuation that Naomi owes her off-court success to the media is a myth — don’t be so self-indulgent.
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