Synonyms for indulgent
ɪnˈdʌl dʒəntin·dul·gent

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1. indulgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   gentle, tolerant, forbearing, lenient

2. indulgentadjective

   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

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1. indulgent

   Synonyms:
   amiable, benignant, bland, complaisant, friendly, genial, gentle, good-natured, kind, loving, mild, pleasant, sympathetic, tender

   Antonyms:
   acrimonious, churlish, crabbed, crusty, dogged, gloomy, gruff, ill-humored, ill-natured, morose, severe, snappish, sour, splenetic, sulky, sullen, surly

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1. indulgent

   Synonyms:
   compliant, forbearing, tender, tolerant

   Antonyms:
   harsh, severe, rough

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1. indulgentadjective

   characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone

   "indulgent grandparents"

   Synonyms:
   lenient, soft

   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-denying

2. indulgent, 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, diffused

   Antonyms:
   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, severe

3. indulgentadjective

   being favorably inclined

   "an indulgent attitude"

   Synonyms:
   lenient, soft

   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

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1. indulgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   yielding, compliant

2. indulgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   lenient, mild, clement, tolerant, gentle, forbearing, kind, tender, not severe

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1. indulgentadjective

   Synonyms:
   forbearing, kind, lenient, lax, merciful

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1. List of paraphrases for "indulgent":

   lenient, forgiving, complacent

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How to use indulgent in a sentence?

1. Angela Ginn-Meadow:

   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.

2. Kevin Havelock:

   People look for small indulgent snacks to treat themselves.

3. Jonathan Thompson:

   A diet plan is only good if you can realistically adhere to it, so it’s key to structure the plan around your specific lifestyle and to build permissive indulgent moments into the plan, like a weekly programmed cheat meal on Saturday night when you know you’ll be around friends and family.

4. Jacques Penhirin:

   Now it's time to be indulgent.

5. Craig Grossi:

   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.