indulgent
/ɪnˈdʌldʒ(ə)nt
/adjective
1Having or indicating a readiness or over-readiness to be generous to or lenient with someone: indulgent parents...
- The personality is trusting and trustworthy, indulgent and generous to itself and others.
- Our parents were usually indulgent, and confident about themselves.
- Yes, indulgent parents, there is now such a thing as ‘pampered child syndrome’.
Synonyms
permissive, easy-going, broad-minded, liberal, tolerant, forgiving, forbearing, lenient, merciful, clement, mild, humane, kind, kindly, soft-hearted, caring, compassionate, understanding, sympathetic;
fond, doting, pampering, mollycoddling, cosseting, soft;
compliant, obliging, accommodating
1.1Self-indulgent: sheer indulgent nostalgia...
- When she shared her new mantra with me, I had to agree it sounded indulgent, sensual and exciting.
- He proceeded to live a luxurious, but not totally indulgent, life.
- This may account for the resultant lack of focus and indulgent tone that manifests itself in the majority of the pieces.
Derivatives
indulgently
/ adverb ...- But, at the time, my thoughts seemed indulgently introspective, and I kept them well buried.
- Crisp triangles of French toast are layered with citrus segments and indulgently oozy oil-glossed pieces of warm foie gras, the best liver known to carnivores.
- When Semele suddenly reappears, singing indulgently from the heavens of ‘endless pleasures’ of the bedroom variety, we are in pure operatic heaven.
Origin
Early 16th century: from French, or from Latin indulgent- 'giving free rein to', from the verb indulgere.
Rhymes
- alpenstock
- alpenstocker
- Alpert, Herb
- alpestrine
- alpha
- alpha-adrenergic
- alpha and omega
- alphabet
- alpha-beta
- alphabet agency
- alphabetarian
- alphabet block
- alphabet book
- alphabeted
- alphabetic
- alphabetical
- alphabetical agency
- alphabetically
- alphabetical order
- alphabetical organization
- alphabetical psalm
- alphabetics
- alphabetiform
- alphabeting
- alphabetise