leniently

1. 1.

   in a permissively lenient manner

   “he felt incensed that Tarrant should have been treated so leniently given his crime”

   Synonymslaxly

Questions about leniently

What does leniently mean?

leniently means "in a permissively lenient manner".

How many syllables are in leniently?

leniently has 3 syllables: le-nient-ly. The stress falls on "le". In IPA it is /ˈlinjəntli/.

What is another word for leniently?

Close synonyms include laxly. 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.

Is leniently a common word?

leniently is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.