What is "lenient" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does lenient mean in English? Meaning of lenient definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "lenient" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "lenient": tolerant or lenient

Adjective

  • Meaning: tolerant or lenient
  • Example: indulgent parents risk spoiling their children too soft on the children they are soft on crime
  • Synonyms: indulgent lenient soft
  • Similar: permissive
  • Meaning of "lenient": not strict

    Adjective

  • Meaning: not strict
  • Example: an easy teacher easy standards lenient rules an easy penalty
  • Synonyms: lenient
  • Similar: undemanding
  • Meaning of "lenient": characterized by tolerance and mercy

    Adjective

  • Meaning: characterized by tolerance and mercy
  • Synonyms: lenient
  • Similar: clement
  • Adjective: Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict. The standard is fairly lenient, so use your discretion. 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.
  • Synonyms:

    sympathetic, indulgent, compassionate, tolerant, benign, compliant, forgiving, amiable, charitable, clement, complaisant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, forbearing, gentle, good-natured, kind, kindly, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, permitting, soft, softhearted, sparing, tender, yielding, benignant, allowing, assuaging, assuasive, being big, excusing, favoring, going easy on, humoring, letting, live with, mollycoddling, pampering, pardoning, soft-shell, spoiling,

    Antonyms:

    merciless, hateful, intolerant, rigorous, hard, limiting, restrictive, severe,

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    lenient in English: lenient
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