indulgent
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English
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]From Latin indulgēns, indulgentem , present participle of indulgēre .
Pronunciation
[edit ]Adjective
[edit ]indulgent (comparative more indulgent, superlative most indulgent)
- Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing.
- Synonyms: forbearing , gentle , lenient , tolerant ; see also Thesaurus:docile, Thesaurus:lenient, Thesaurus:permissive
- an indulgent parent
- to be indulgent to servants
- 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:
- An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.
- 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, "TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): "Treehouse of Horror III" (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)", in The A.V. Club [1] , archived from the original on 15 August 2012:
- Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.
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[edit ]Translations
[edit ]adjective — see also self-indulgent
- Belarusian: паблажлівы (pablažlivy), патураючы (paturajučy)
- Bulgarian: снизходителен (bg) (snizhoditelen), отстъпчив (bg) (otstăpčiv)
- Catalan: indulgent (ca)
- Czech: shovívavý , benevolentní (cs)
- Dutch: toegeeflijk (nl)
- Finnish: lempeä (fi) , suopea (fi) , hyväntahtoinen (fi) , myöntyväinen (fi) , anteeksiantavainen
- French: indulgent (fr)
- German: nachgiebig (de) , zu verwöhnen tendierend , verwöhnen wollend , ausgelassen (de) , sich verwöhnend , sich etwas gönnend , mild (de) , nachsichtig (de) , duldsam (de) , gutmütig (de)
- Hungarian: elnéző (hu) , engedékeny (hu) , vajszívű (hu)
- Ido: indulgema (io)
- Latin: indulgens
- Macedonian: по́пустлив (pópustliv), сни́сходлив (sníshodliv)
- Marathi: निरत असणारा (nirat asṇārā), कोडकौतुक करणारा (koḍkautuk karṇārā), सुखलोलुप (sukhlolup), स्वसुखलोलुप (svasukhlolup), सौम्य (saumya), क्षमावान (kṣamāvān)
- Portuguese: indulgente (pt)
- Romanian: indulgent (ro)
- Russian: снисходи́тельный (ru) (snisxodítelʹnyj), потака́ющий (ru) (potakájuščij)
- Spanish: indulgente (es) , anuente (es)
- Swedish: svag (sv) , överseende (sv) , tillåtande (sv) , eftergiven (sv)
- Turkish: uysal (tr)
- Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can
Further reading
[edit ]- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), "indulgent", in The Century Dictionary [...], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
French
[edit ]Pronunciation
[edit ]Etymology 1
[edit ]Learned borrowing from Latin indulgēns .
Adjective
[edit ]indulgent (feminine indulgente , masculine plural indulgents , feminine plural indulgentes )
- lenient (tolerant; not strict)
- Antonyms: intransigeant , sévère
Related terms
[edit ]Etymology 2
[edit ]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
[edit ]indulgent
Further reading
[edit ]- "indulgent", in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012
Latin
[edit ]Verb
[edit ]indulgent
Romanian
[edit ]Etymology
[edit ]Borrowed from French indulgent , a learned borrowing from Latin indulgēns .
Adjective
[edit ]indulgent m or n (feminine singular indulgentă , masculine plural indulgenți , feminine/neuter plural indulgente )
Declension
[edit ]| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | neuter | feminine | masculine | neuter | feminine | ||
| nominative- accusative |
indefinite | indulgent | indulgentă | indulgenți | indulgente | ||
| definite | indulgentul | indulgenta | indulgenții | indulgentele | |||
| genitive- dative |
indefinite | indulgent | indulgente | indulgenți | indulgente | ||
| definite | indulgentului | indulgentei | indulgenților | indulgentelor | |||
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