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lenient
Synonyms and Antonyms of lenient
- a teacher who is lenient with students who have misbehaved
- The public was outraged by the lenient sentence the corrupt banker received.
clement, forbearing, forgiving, merciful, soft
beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted
attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful
affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm
patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding
altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing
grim, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, strict, tough
ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking
hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent
antihumanitarian, uncharitable
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton
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