1. Characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
   "indulgent grandparents" 
2. Tolerant or lenient
   "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"
   - lenient, soft 
3. Being favourably inclined
   "an indulgent attitude"

See also: betting, card-playing, decadent, dissipated, effete, epicurean, favorable [US], favourable [Brit, Cdn], gay, gluttonous, hard, heavy, hedonic, hedonistic, indulgence, indulgently, intemperate, luxuriant, luxurious, overindulgent, pampering, permissive, self-indulgent, sporting, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous

Antonym: nonindulgent

Encyclopedia: Indulgent

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