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lenient 音標拼音: [l'iniənt] [l'injənt] a. 寬大的,深情的,慈悲為懷的 寬大的,深情的,慈悲為懷的 lenient adj 1: tolerant or lenient; " indulgent parents risk spoiling their children"; " too soft on the children"; " they are soft on crime" [ synonym: { indulgent}, { lenient}, { soft}] 2: not strict; " an easy teacher"; " easy standards"; " lenient rules"; " an easy penalty" 3: characterized by tolerance and mercyLenient \ 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}.] [ 1913 Webster] 1. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of. " Lenient of grief." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] O?? relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic. -- Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster] Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand. -- Pope. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence. [ 1913 Webster]
Lenient \ Le" ni* ent\, n. ( Med.) A lenitive; an emollient. [ 1913 Webster] 95 Moby Thesaurus words for " lenient": 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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