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condoning
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | approving |
| Synonyms: | indulgent, lenient, tolerating |
| Main Entry: | extenuating |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | serving as an excuse |
| Synonyms: | condoning, diminishing, justifying, lessening, mitigating, moderating, palliating, qualifying, reducing, sanitizing, softening, varnishing, whitewashing |
| Notes: | mitigating is lessening or moderating; extenuating is stretching out, thinning, making less dense or compact |
| 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: | merciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, sparing |
| Synonyms: | all heart, beneficent, benign, benignant, bleeding heart, charitable, clement, compassionate, condoning, easygoing, feeling, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, gracious, heart in right place, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindly, lenient, liberal, mild, pardoning, pitiful, pitying, soft*, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant |
| Antonyms: | cruel, merciless, unforgiving, unkind, unmerciful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tolerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | open-minded, easygoing |
| Synonyms: | advanced, benevolent, big, broad, broad-minded, catholic, charitable, clement, complaisant, condoning, easy on, easy with, excusing, fair, forbearing, forgiving, free and easy, humane, indulgent, kindhearted, lax, lenient, liberal, long-suffering, magnanimous, merciful, patient, permissive, progressive, radical, receptive, soft, sophisticated, sympathetic, understanding, unprejudiced, wide |
| Antonyms: | biased, disapproving, intolerant, narrow-minded, prejudiced |
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