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| 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 |
| Concept: | Support. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-adjectives
supporting, supported; fundamental; dorsigerous.
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