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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
lenient
adj 1: tolerant or lenient; "indulgent parents risk spoiling
their children"; "too soft on the children"; "they are
soft on crime" [syn: indulgent, lenient, soft]
2: not strict; "an easy teacher"; "easy standards"; "lenient
rules"; "an easy penalty"
3: characterized by tolerance and mercy
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Lenient \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.]
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1. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes
followed by of. "Lenient of grief." --Milton.
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O?? relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic.
--Arbuthnot.
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Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand.
--Pope.
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2. Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a
lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Lenient \Le"ni*ent\, n. (Med.)
A lenitive; an emollient.
[1913 Webster]
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Thesaurus Results for lenient:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
Spartan, 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, long-suffering, longanimous, 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, stoic, suffering, sympathetic, sympathizing, tactful, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, tolerating, tolerative, understanding, unprohibitive, unrestrained, warmhearted, weak |
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Common Misspellings > |
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