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Adjective indulgent has 3 senses
- indulgent - showing or characterized by or given to indulgence; "indulgent grandparents"
Antonyms: nonindulgent, austere, stern, blue, puritan, puritanic, puritanical, corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal, monkish, renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying, self-disciplined, severe, spartan, strict
- indulgent, lax, lenient, soft - tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children"
Antonym: unpermissive (indirect, via permissive)
- indulgent - being favorably inclined; "an indulgent attitude"
Antonyms: unfavorable, unfavourable (indirect, via favorable)
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