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Synonyms for indulgent
ɪnˈdʌl dʒəntin·dul·gent
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Wiktionary
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":
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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 |
How to use indulgent in a sentence?
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.
We’ve always been about choice, we like to think we offer items from healthy to indulgent. We think we do a good job of listening to customers. In 2010 we introduced a gluten-free menu based on our customers’ requests. And we’re a lot like our customers—in 2013 we realized many of our senior staff members were trying to eat less meat, so we created a section of our menu highlighting meatless options, and started introducing more veggie options and limited-time offers like our caprese sandwich and caprese pasta, which are doing really well.
Now it's time to be indulgent.
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.
Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.
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