Thesaurus: lenient

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1. a. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.
2. a. Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence.
3. n. A lenitive; an emollient.
4. adj. tolerant or lenient
5. adj. not strict
6. adj. characterized by tolerance and mercy
7. 1. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- some "Lenient of grief." Milton. Of relax the fibers, are lenient, balsamic. Arbuthnot. Time, that on all things lays his lenient hand. Pope. 2. Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe; as, a lenient disposition; a lenient judge or sentence. A lenitive; an emollient.
8. j:100 s. not strict s. characterized by tolerance and mercy