Synonyms: indulgent
Definition: being favorably inclined
Usage: an indulgent attitude
Similar words: favorable, favourable
Definition: encouraging or approving or pleasing
Usage: a favorable reply; he received a favorable rating; listened with a favorable ear; made a favorable impression
Synonyms: indulgent
Definition: characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone
Usage: indulgent grandparents
Similar words: decadent, effete
Definition: marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay
Usage: a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility; a group of effete self-professed intellectuals
Similar words: dissipated, card-playing, betting, sporting
Definition: preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance
Usage: led a dissipated life; a betting man; a card-playing son of a bitch; a gambling fool; sporting gents and their ladies
Similar words: sybaritic, luxuriant, luxurious, epicurean, voluptuary, voluptuous
Definition: displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses
Usage: an epicurean banquet; enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs; Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence; a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness
Similar words: gay
Definition: given to social pleasures often including dissipation
Usage: led a gay Bohemian life; a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies
Similar words: epicurean, hedonic, hedonistic
Definition: devoted to pleasure
Usage: a hedonic thrill; lives of unending hedonistic delight; epicurean pleasures
Similar words: heavy, intemperate, hard
Definition: given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors
Usage: a hard drinker
Similar words: overindulgent
Definition: excessively indulgent
Similar words: pampering
Definition: gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires
Usage: pampering parents often have spoilt children; a very pampering cruise experience
Similar words: self-indulgent
Definition: indulgent of your own appetites and desires
Usage: a self-indulgent...way of looking at life- Havelock Ellis
Synonyms: indulgent, soft, lenient
Definition: tolerant or lenient
Usage: indulgent parents risk spoiling their children; too soft on the children; they are soft on crime
Similar words: permissive
Definition: granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline
Usage: direct primary legislation is largely permissive rather than prescriptive; permissive parents