indulgent

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
indulgent
    adj 1: characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of
           someone ; "indulgent grandparents" [ant: {nonindulgent},
           {strict}]
    2: tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their
       children"; "too soft on the children"; "they are soft on
       crime" [syn: {indulgent}, {lenient}, {soft}]
    3: being favorably inclined; "an indulgent attitude"
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Indulgent \In*dul"gent\, a. [L. indulgens, -entis, p. pr. of
   indulgere: cf. F. indulgent. See {Indulge}.]
   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. --Shak.
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         The indulgent censure of posterity.      --Waller.
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         The feeble old, indulgent of their ease. --Dryden.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
104 Moby Thesaurus words for "indulgent":
      Spartan, accepting, accommodating, accommodative, admissive,
      affable, agreeable, allowing, amiable, armed with patience,
      attentive, benevolent, benign, benignant, bibulous, broad-minded,
      charitable, clement, complaisant, compliant, consenting,
      considerate, cosseting, crapulent, crapulous, decent, delicate,
      disciplined, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, excessive,
      excusing, extravagant, extreme, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving,
      freethinking, generous, gluttonous, gracious, heedful, helpful,
      immoderate, incontinent, inordinate, intemperate, kind, kindly,
      latitudinarian, lax, lenient, liberal, libertarian, libertine,
      long-suffering, longanimous, magnanimous, merciful, mindful,
      mindful of others, nonprohibitive, obliging, open-minded,
      overindulgent, overindulging, overpermissive, pampering, patient,
      patient as Job, permissive, permitting, persevering, philosophical,
      prodigal, regardful, relaxed, self-controlled, self-indulgent,
      solicitous, stoic, suffering, swinish, tactful, thoughtful,
      tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, too much, unbigoted, unbridled,
      unconstrained, uncontrolled, understanding, undisciplined,
      unfrugal, unlimited, unmeasured, unprohibitive, unrestrained,
      unthrifty, well-disposed

    

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