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adj. Inclined not to be harsh or strict; merciful, generous, or indulgent: lenient parents; lenient rules.

adj. Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.

n. A lenitive; an emollient.

adj. Relaxing; emollient; softening; assuasive; -- sometimes followed by of.

adj. Mild; clement; merciful; not rigorous or severe

n. A lenitive; an emollient.

Softening; mitigating; assuasive.

Relaxing; emollient; lenitive.

Acting or disposed to act without rigor or severity; mild; gentle; merciful; clement.

Synonyms Forbearing, tender. See leniency.

n. An emollient; a lenitive.

adj. characterized by tolerance and mercy

adj. tolerant or lenient

adj. not strict

"Robert Mugabe's cabinet, arose from his criticism of what he called lenient sentences imposed by a High Court judge on three American missionaries for possession of arms."

clement    permissive    undemanding   

strict   

leniency    lenity    lenience   

relaxing    emollient    softening    assuasive    mild    clement    merciful    lenitive    indulgent    lax   

convenient    inconvenient   

indulgent    merciful    considerate    humane    lax    placable    affable    favourable    benignant    equitable