Meaning of LENIENT
| Pronunciation: | | 'leeneeunt
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- [adj] characterized by tolerance and mercy
- [adj] not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient rules"
- [adj] tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "procedures are lax and discipline is weak"; "too soft on the children"
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| | Synonyms: | | clement, easy, indulgent, lax, permissive, soft, undemanding |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Le"ni*ent\ (l[=e]"n[i^]*ent or l[=e]n"yent), a. [L.
leniens, -entis, p. pr. of lenire to soften, fr. lenis soft,
mild. Cf. {Lithe}.]
1. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes
followed by of. ``Lenient of grief.'' --Milton.
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\Le"ni*ent\, n. (Med.)
A lenitive; an emollient.
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| | Related Terms: | | accepting, accommodating, accommodative, admissive, agreeable, allowing, armed with patience, attentive, balmy, bland, bleeding, careless, charitable, clement, commiserative, compassionate, complaisant, condolent, consenting, considerate, delicate, disciplined, easy, easygoing, endurant, enduring, faint, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, heedful, helpful, human, humane, impotent, imprecise, indifferent, indulgent, kind, kindly, lax, longanimous, long-suffering, loose, magnanimous, melting, merciful, mild, mindful, mindful of others, moderate, negligent, nonprohibitive, obliging, overindulgent, overpermissive, patient, patient as Job, permissive, permitting, persevering, philosophical, pitying, regardful, relaxed, remiss, ruthful, self-controlled, slack, slipshod, sloppy, smooth, soft, softhearted, solicitous, sparing, Spartan, stoic, suffering, sympathetic, sympathizing, tactful, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, understanding, unprohibitive, unrestrained, warmhearted, weak |
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