| 单词 | indulgent |
| 释义 | indulgent (once / 1120 pages) adj Someone who is self-indulgent gives themselves a lot of treats. Parents who are indulgent cave to every desire their child expresses. Indulgent means lenient, or overly generous. Indulgent is a word that, here in Puritanical North America, is hard to know how to take. Is it okay to “indulge yourself” as so many spa advertisements suggest? Or is indulgent always associated with excess? You can indulge fantasies of figuring out the answer, or you can give in to an indulgent shrug and move on to another word. WORD FAMILYindulgent: indulgently, nonindulgent, overindulgent, self-indulgent+/self-indulgent: self-indulgently USAGE EXAMPLESI said I was an optimist; I didn’t say I was indulgent. The Guardian(Dec 18, 2016) Sales of custard creams and the humble digestive biscuit are crumbing as Britons opt for healthier and more indulgent treats. BBC(Dec 06, 2016) They were very Catholic and – according to friends – indulgent. The Guardian(Dec 01, 2016) 1adj characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone indulgent grandparents Syn|Ant gluttonous given to excess in consumption of especially food or drink decadent, effetemarked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay betting, card-playing, dissipated, sportingpreoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuousdisplaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses gaygiven to social pleasures often including dissipation epicurean, hedonic, hedonisticdevoted to pleasure hard, heavy, intemperategiven to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors overindulgentexcessively indulgent pamperinggratifying tastes, appetites, or desires self-indulgentindulgent of your own appetites and desires nonindulgent, strict characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint abstemioussparing in consumption of especially food and drink austere, sternof a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect blue, puritanic, puritanicalmorally rigorous and strict corrective, disciplinal, disciplinarydesigned to promote discipline monkishbefitting a monk; inclined to self-denial renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denyingused especially of behavior self-disciplined, self-restrainingused of nonindulgent persons severe, spartanunsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment 2adj tolerant or lenient indulgent parents risk spoiling their children Syn lenient, soft permissive granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline 3adj being favorably inclined an indulgent attitude Syn favorable, favourable encouraging or approving or pleasing |
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