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. Mathias Cormann:

   I think it is incredibly selfish, it's incredibly self-indulgent.

2. Alain van der Heide:

   Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other organizations habitually engage in only because they cannot actually masturbate.

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. 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.

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.