- 1(usually disapproving) tending to allow someone to have or do whatever they want indulgent parents an indulgent smile Mothers tend to be less indulgent toward daughters. see self-indulgent
- 2willing or too willing to ignore the weaknesses in someone or something synonym patient to take an indulgent view of something
adverb to laugh indulgentlySee indulgent in the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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