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. Jamie Cohen:

   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.

3. Linda Ronstadt:

   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.

4. Kevin Havelock:

   People look for small indulgent snacks to treat themselves.

5. Jason Sudeikis:

   It feels indulgent to say that, but I say it humbly, it’s what athletes call ‘The Zone,’ it’s a real thing. And sometimes we only feel it in the 20 seconds when we first get in the shower.