| Main Entry: | lenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | permissive |
Synonyms: |
allowing, amiable, assuaging, assuasive, being big, benign, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, excusing, favoring, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, going easy on, good-natured, humoring, indulgent, kind, kindly, letting, live with, loving, merciful, mild, mollycoddling, obliging, pampering, pardoning, permitting, soft, soft-shell, softhearted, sparing, spoiling, sympathetic, tender, tolerant, yielding |
Antonyms: |
hard, intolerant, limiting, restrictive, rigorous, severe |
| Main Entry: | satisfactory |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | acceptable, sufficient |
Synonyms: |
A-OK, adequate, all right, ample, appeasing, assuaging, assuasive, average, cogent, comfortable, competent, cool*, decent, delighting, enough, fair, fulfilling, good, good enough, gratifying, groovy*, passable, peachy*, pleasing, satisfying, solid, sound, sufficing, suitable, tolerable, unexceptional, up to snuff, valid |
Antonyms: |
inadequate, insufficient, unacceptable, unfit, unsatisfactory, unsuitable |
| Main Entry: | softening |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | relaxing |
Synonyms: |
assuasive, crumbly, demulcent, ductile, emollient, emulsive, flaccid, friable, lenient, lenitive, malleable, mitigatory, mollescent, mollient, mollifying, pianissimo, pliable |