Indulgent
[ɪn'dʌldʒ(ə)nt] or [ɪn'dʌldʒənt]
Definition
(adj.) being favorably inclined; 'an indulgent attitude' .
(adj.) characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; 'indulgent grandparents' .
(adj.) tolerant or lenient; 'indulgent parents risk spoiling their children'; 'too soft on the children'; 'they are soft on crime' .
Typist: Richard--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Prone to indulge; yielding to the wishes, humor, or appetites of those under one's care; compliant; not opposing or restraining; tolerant; mild; favorable; not severe; as, an indulgent parent.
Editor: Pedro
Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Yielding, compliant.[2]. Lenient, mild, clement, tolerant, gentle, forbearing, kind, tender, not severe.
Checked by Evan
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Compliant, forbearing, tender, tolerant
ANT:Harsh, severe, rough,[See SUBMISSIVE]
Typist: Vivienne
Examples
- He was one of those rare men who are rigid to themselves and indulgent to others. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- My parents were indulgent, and my companions amiable. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Those merchants and manufacturers enjoy a sort of monopoly in the country which is so indulgent to them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Lydgate's anger rose: he was prepared to be indulgent towards feminine weakness, but not towards feminine dictation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On the other hand, she was disproportionately indulgent towards the failings of men, and was often heard to say that these were natural. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Your sweetheart--Fortune, I mean--was perfectly indulgent. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She treated her therefore, with all the indulgent fondness of a parent towards a favourite child on the last day of its holidays. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- But she assured me she would never marry an idle self-indulgent man--nothing since. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Improvident and self-indulgent were his words. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Women who are worthy the name ought infinitely to surpass; our coarsefallible, self-indulgent sex, in the power to perform such duties. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- France, however, is certainly the great empire in Europe, which, after that of Great Britain, enjoys the mildest and most indulgent government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- From you, her mother, and so kind, so indulgent a mother, the question could not give offence. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- She had lost her indulgent parents, her brothers and sisters, companions of her youth; in one fell swoop they had been carried off from her. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- I do not look on self-indulgent, sensual people as worthy of my hatred; I simply look upon them with contempt for their poorness of character. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- And with a relenting smile, he added, I come home to be happy and indulgent. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Indulgent Mr. Godfrey pacified her by taking a sheet of paper, and drawing out the declaration. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- She had her own reasons for being less sanguine than ever in hopeful views of the future, less indulgent to pleasurable retrospections of the past. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I don't know if you've heard-- Mrs. Archer produced an indulgent smile. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I shall never marry again, said Dorothea, touching her sister's chin, and looking at her with indulgent affection. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with few pretensions. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- They know that no attack is so disastrous as silence, that no invective is so blasting as the wise and indulgent smile of the people who do not care. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Mr. Gale had been a churchwarden, and was indulgent to the clergy. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So I sought out a school conducted on a more indulgent system, and near enough to permit of my visiting her often, and bringing her home sometimes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- To her she was most injudiciously indulgent. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- No; you are most generously considerate, indeed, most tenderly indulgent to her; and you will be considerate with mamma. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I supposed he regarded my silence as eccentricbut he was indulgent in refraining from censure. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I hope it is not self-indulgent to shed these tears as I think of it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The people we called weak-willed or self-indulgent always deceive themselves as to the consequences of their acts. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- His lordship gave me an indulgent look and acknowledged my curtsy very graciously. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He believed he was an indulgent father (as indeed he was), and I might spare myself any solicitude on her account. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
Typist: Vivienne