Word Meanings - LENIENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
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,
Additional info about word: LENIENT
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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LENIENT)
- Easy
- Quiet
- comfortable
- manageable
- indulgent
- facile
- lenient
- unconstrained
- gentle
- not difficult
- unconcerned
- self-possessed
- Kind
- Benevolent
- benign
- tender
- humane
- clement
- compassionate
- good
- gracious
- forbearing
- kind-hearted
- Mild
- Moderate
- calm
- genial
- tempered
- soft
- meek
- placid
- Sedative
- Allaying
- tranquillizing
- composing
- soothing
- demulcent
- palliative
- assuasive
- anodyne
- hypnotic
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LENIENT)
Related words: (words related to LENIENT)
- HYPNOTIC
1. Having the quality of producing sleep; tending to produce sleep; soporific. 2. Of or pertaining to hypnotism; in a state of hypnotism; liable to hypnotism; as, a hypnotic condition. - COMPOSITOUS
Belonging to the Compositæ; composite. Darwin. - TENDER
A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes - COMPASSIONATELY
In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon. - GENIALLY
1. By genius or nature; naturally. Some men are genially disposed to some opinions. Glanvill. 2. Gayly; cheerfully. Johnson. - APPROPRIATENESS
The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude. - ROUSE
To pull or haul strongly and all together, as upon a rope, without the assistance of mechanical appliances. - UNCONCERNMENT
The state of being unconcerned, or of having no share or concern; unconcernedness. South. - TEMPER SCREW
1. A screw link, to which is attached the rope of a rope-drilling apparatus, for feeding and slightly turning the drill jar at each stroke. 2. A set screw used for adjusting. - AGITATE
1. To move with a violent, irregular action; as, the wind agitates the sea; to agitate water in a vessel. "Winds . . . agitate the air." Cowper. 2. To move or actuate. Thomson. 3. To stir up; to disturb or excite; to perturb; as, he was greatly - DEMULCENT
Softening; mollifying; soothing; assuasive; as, oil is demulcent. - PALLIATIVE
Serving to palliate; serving to extenuate or mitigate. - PLACID
Pleased; contented; unruffied; undisturbed; serene; peaceful; tranquil; quiet; gentle. "That placid aspect and meek regard." Milton. "Sleeping . . . the placid sleep of infancy." Macaulay. - TENDERLY
In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer. - TENDERNESS
The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy. - RETAINMENT
The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More. - KIND-HEARTED
Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak. - LENIENTLY
In a lenient manner. - BENEVOLENT
Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent. - COMPOSURE
1. The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition. Signor Pietro, who had an admirable way both of composure and teaching. Evelyn. 2. Orderly adjustment; disposition. Various composures and combinations of these corpuscles. - INDECOMPOSABLENESS
Incapableness of decomposition; stability; permanence; durability. - DISTEMPERATE
1. Immoderate. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. Diseased; disordered. Wodroephe. - DISQUIETTUDE
Want of peace or tranquility; uneasiness; disturbance; agitation; anxiety. Fears and disquietude, and unavoidable anxieties of mind. Abp. Sharp. - TROUSERING
Cloth or material for making trousers. - INCLEMENT
1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement - EFFLAGITATE
To ask urgently. Cockeram. - DISQUIETLY
In a disquiet manner; uneasily; as, he rested disquietly that night. Wiseman. - UNQUIET
To disquiet. Ld. Herbert. - TROUSE
Trousers. Spenser. - DISGRACIOUS
Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.