indulgent

1. 1.

   characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone

   “indulgent grandparents”

   Antonymsnonindulgent

   Similardecadentdissipatedepicureangayhedonicintemperateoverindulgentpampering
2. 2.

   tolerant or lenient

   “indulgent parents risk spoiling their children”

   “too soft on the children”

   “they are soft on crime”

   Synonymslenientsoft

   Similarpermissive
3. 3.

   being favorably inclined

   “an indulgent attitude”

   Similarfavorable

Questions about indulgent

What does indulgent mean?

indulgent means "characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indulgent?

indulgent has 3 syllables: in-dul-gent. The stress falls on "dul". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdʌldʒənt/.

What is another word for indulgent?

Close synonyms include lenient, soft. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of indulgent?

The recorded antonyms are nonindulgent.

Is indulgent a common word?

indulgent is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.