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permissive
Characterized by freedom of personal behavior or a disregard of traditional social mores.
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  1. Characterized by freedom of personal behavior or a disregard of traditional social mores.
  2. Allowing freedom; esp., tolerant of behavior or practices generally disapproved of by others; indulgent; lenient
  3. Granting or inclined to grant permission; tolerant or lenient:
tolerant
Able to withstand or endure an adverse environmental condition:
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  1. Able to withstand or endure an adverse environmental condition:
  2. Able to digest or metabolize a food, drug, or other substance or compound:
  3. Inclined to tolerate the beliefs or behavior of others; forbearing:
easygoing
(Of a person) calm, relaxed, casual and informal
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  1. (Of a person) calm, relaxed, casual and informal
  2. Dealing with things in a relaxed manner; not hurried or agitated
  3. Living without undue worry or concern; calm.
fond
Immoderately affectionate or indulgent; doting:
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  1. Immoderately affectionate or indulgent; doting:
  2. Having a strong liking, inclination, or affection:
  3. Affectionate; tender:
accommodating
Helpful and obliging.
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  1. Helpful and obliging.
  2. Willing to please; ready to help; obliging
  3. Affording, or disposed to afford, accommodation; obliging; helpful; as an accommodating man, spirit, arrangement.
agreeable
Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; followed by to, or rarely by with.
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  1. Agreeing or suitable; conformable; correspondent; concordant; adapted; followed by to, or rarely by with.
  2. Pleasing or pleasant
  3. Pleasing, either to the mind or senses; pleasant; grateful.
complaisant
Willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
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  1. Willing to please; affably agreeable; obliging
obliging
Ready to do favors; helpful; courteous; accommodating
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  1. Ready to do favors; helpful; courteous; accommodating
  2. Happy and ready to do favours for others.
charitable
Kind, generous.
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  1. Kind, generous.
  2. Kind and forgiving in judging others; lenient
  3. Kind and generous in giving money or other help to those in need
clement
Forbearing; lenient; merciful
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  1. Forbearing; lenient; merciful
  2. Inclined to be lenient or merciful.
  3. Mild:
easy
Requiring or exhibiting little effort or endeavor; undemanding:
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  1. Requiring or exhibiting little effort or endeavor; undemanding:
  2. Affording comfort or relief; soothing:
  3. Readily exploited, imposed on, or tricked:
forbearing
Characterized by patience and indulgence; long-suffering: as, a forbearing temper.
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  1. Characterized by patience and indulgence; long-suffering: as, a forbearing temper.
lax
Slack; of a loose texture; not rigid or tight
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  1. Slack; of a loose texture; not rigid or tight
  2. Loose and not easily retained or controlled. Used of bowel movements.
  3. Loose; emptying easily
lenient
Not harsh or severe in disciplining, punishing, judging, etc.; mild; merciful; clement
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  1. Not harsh or severe in disciplining, punishing, judging, etc.; mild; merciful; clement
  2. Not harsh or strict; merciful or generous:
  3. Inclined not to be harsh or strict; merciful or indulgent:
merciful
Showing mercy
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  1. Showing mercy
  2. Full of mercy; compassionate:
  3. Full of mercy; having, feeling, or showing mercy; compassionate; lenient, clement, etc.
soft
Not hard for its kind; not as hard as is normal, desirable, etc.
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  1. Not hard for its kind; not as hard as is normal, desirable, etc.
  2. Easy to digest because free from roughage
  3. Not demanding or difficult; easy:
tolerant
Inclined to tolerate the beliefs or behavior of others; forbearing:
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  1. Inclined to tolerate the beliefs or behavior of others; forbearing:
  2. Able to withstand or endure an adverse environmental condition:
  3. Able to digest or metabolize a food, drug, or other substance or compound:
Find another word for indulgent. In this page you can discover 22 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for indulgent, like: permissive, tolerant, easygoing, fond, kind, lenient, accommodating, agreeable, complaisant, obliging and charitable.

Sentence Examples

  • Swedish historians have been excusably indulgent to the father of their greatest ruler.

  • Indeed, he was considered by his stern brethren as somewhat too fond and indulgent a parent.

  • Kalinka is, however, far too severe upon the patriots and much too indulgent towards King Stanislaus.

  • My father was most loving and indulgent, devoted to his home, seldom leaving us, except in the hunting season.

  • He was affable to the point of familiarity, quick-witted like a true Gascon, good-hearted, indulgent, yet skilled in reading the character of those around him, and he could at times show himself severe and unyielding.

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