lenient synonyms

lenient

modif.

loving, soft, soft-hearted, easygoing, permissive, favoring, mild, tender, yielding, complaint, pampering, clement, indulgent, humoring, tolerant, forbearing, pardoning, letting, permitting, allowing, gratifying, sympathetic, assuaging, assuasive, emollient; see also kind.

Antonyms severe*, firm*, austere.

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