Synonyms of indulged

indulged 1 of 2

adjective

as in spoiled

Related Words

• spoiled
• pampered
• coddled
• wealthy
• moneyed
• affluent
• successful
• opulent
• loaded
• rich
• well-to-do
• propertied
• comfortable
• fortunate
• well-heeled
• lucky
• well-off
• blessed
• prosperous
• privileged
• flush
• advantaged
• thriving
• flourishing
• prospering

Dissimilar Words

• deprived
• depressed
• disadvantaged
• underprivileged
• poor
• broke
• needy
• impoverished
• destitute
• impecunious
• penniless
• indigent
• penurious
• unprivileged
• bankrupt
• beggared
• insolvent
• poverty-stricken
• bankrupted

indulged

2 of 2

verb

past tense of indulge

1

as in humored

to give in to (a desire)

the grandparents indulged the child's wishes to an extent that they never did with their own children

Synonyms & Similar Words

• humored
• gratified
• pleased
• spoiled
• catered (to)
• reveled
• delighted
• satisfied
• basked
• luxuriated
• pampered
• wallowed
• coddled
• satiated
• pleasured
• sated
• mollycoddled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• checked
• restrained
• constrained
• inhibited
• stifled
• curbed
• bridled

2

as in surrendered

to give (oneself) over to something especially unrestrainedly

conventioneers who were obviously eager to indulge themselves in all of the vices that Las Vegas might offer

Synonyms & Similar Words

• surrendered
• abandoned
• yielded
• delivered
• gave up
• reveled
• overindulged
• basked
• overdid
• luxuriated
• wallowed
• rolled

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• denied
• eschewed
• refrained (from)
• abstained (from)
• restrained
• checked
• inhibited
• forbore
• forwent

3

as in nursed

to treat with great or excessive care

you indulge those grandkids in ways you never did with your own kids

Synonyms & Similar Words

• spoiled
• nursed
• pampered
• pleased
• satisfied
• coddled
• babied
• appeased
• cosseted
• dandled
• delighted
• mollycoddled
• mothered
• humored
• cockered
• obliged
• contented
• gratified
• wet-nursed
• soothed
• placated
• catered (to)
• gladdened
• mollified
• pacified

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• controlled
• abused
• restrained
• misused
• mistreated
• disciplined
• neglected
• oppressed
• manhandled
• violated
• maltreated
• mishandled
• overlooked
• ill-treated
• ill-used
• slighted
• outraged
• molested
• hurt
• injured
• harassed
• harmed
• tormented
• tortured
• victimized
• persecuted

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of indulged

Adjective

But the partner being indulged will be none the wiser to the other’s true feelings. — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025

Verb

At the same time, centrists swung against a left that had indulged its purist tendencies. — Michelle Goldberg, Mercury News, 27 June 2026

Perhaps the latter must be indulged a bit to build a platform for the former—forests sometimes need to burn in order to thrive. — Jon Allsop, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026

As for whether whims like that need to be indulged, Mayer, perhaps not surprisingly, is on the side of the talent. — Chris Willman, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026

These men considered the loss of control that such behavior implied-an animal urge indulged by weak men lacking the courage to fight other men directly-to be shameful. — Literary Hub, 26 May 2026

The custodian of the maison’s some 20,000 documents, fragments, and objects is the effervescent Sophie Rouart, who indulged me in pulling any style of my choosing. — Stephanie Sporn, Vogue, 27 Jan. 2026

This ideal of masculinity is not a patriarch but a perpetual adolescent, endlessly irresponsible and endlessly indulged. — Helen Lewis, The Atlantic, 5 June 2026

His appetite for complexity was increasingly indulged as a means of branding cities and institutions, and his novel forms were deployed as blunt metaphors to absorb and obscure contradictions rather than negotiate them in material and spatial terms. — Julian Rose, Artforum, 26 Mar. 2026

For more than a quarter-century, fate never indulged us with another KU-MU game in Kansas City (other than the 2017 hurricane relief exhibition) as the series itself went dormant in the wake of Mizzou’s move to the Southeastern Conference. — Kansas City Star, 8 Dec. 2025