indulgent
Adjective
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Characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone (synset 301300436)
"indulgent grandparents"also: gluttonous - given to excess in consumption of especially food or drinksimilar to:
- decadent - luxuriously self-indulgent
- betting, card-playing, dissipated, sporting - preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
- epicurean, luxuriant, luxurious, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous - displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
- gay - given to social pleasures often including dissipation
- epicurean, hedonic, hedonistic - devoted to pleasure
- hard, heavy, intemperate - given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
- overindulgent - excessively indulgent
- pampering - gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires
- self-indulgent - indulgent of your own appetites and desires
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Tolerant or lenient (synset 301767671)
"indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; "too soft on the children"; "they are soft on crime"similar to: permissive - granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline
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Being favorably inclined (synset 300999762)
"an indulgent attitude"similar to: favorable, favourable - encouraging or approving or pleasing
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