INDULGENT
Dictionary entry overview: What does indulgent mean?
• INDULGENT (adjective)
The adjective INDULGENT has 3 senses:
1. characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
2. tolerant or lenient
3. being favorably inclined
Familiarity information: INDULGENT used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• INDULGENT (adjective)
Meaning:
Characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
Context example:
indulgent grandparents
Similar:
self-indulgent (indulgent of your own appetites and desires)
pampering (overly indulgent)
overindulgent (excessively indulgent)
hard; heavy; intemperate (given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors)
epicurean; hedonic; hedonistic (devoted to pleasure)
gay (given to social pleasures often including dissipation)
epicurean; luxuriant; luxurious; sybaritic; voluptuary; voluptuous (displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses)
betting; card-playing; dissipated; sporting (preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance)
decadent; effete (marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay)
Also:
gluttonous (given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink)
Antonym:
nonindulgent (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)
Meaning:
Tolerant or lenient
Synonyms:
lenient; indulgent; soft
Context examples:
indulgent parents risk spoiling their children / too soft on the children / they are soft on crime
Similar:
permissive (granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline)
Meaning:
Being favorably inclined
Context example:
an indulgent attitude
Similar:
favorable; favourable (encouraging or approving or pleasing)
