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allowing

ADJECTIVE

lenient

Synonyms

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benign compassionate compliant forgiving indulgent sympathetic tolerant

WEAK

amiable assuaging assuasive being big benignant charitable clement complaisant condoning easy easygoing emollient excusing favoring forbearing gentle going easy on good-natured humoring kind kindly letting live with loving merciful mild mollycoddling obliging pampering pardoning permitting soft soft-shell softhearted sparing spoiling tender yielding

Antonyms

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hateful merciless

WEAK

hard intolerant limiting restrictive rigorous severe

ADJECTIVE

permissive

Synonyms

STRONGEST

indulgent lax open-minded tolerant

WEAK

acquiescent agreeable approving easygoing forbearing free latitudinarian liberal permitting susceptible

Antonyms

STRONGEST

strict

WEAK

intolerant mean

ADJECTIVE

permitting

Synonyms

STRONG

authorizing granting letting licensing sanctioning tolerating

WEAK

lenient permissive

CONJUNCTION

though

Synonyms

STRONGEST

although even if even though yet

STRONG

despite the fact notwithstanding

WEAK

albeit despite

NOUN

acknowledgment

Synonyms

STRONGEST

acceptance admission affirmation assent assertion concession confession confirmation corroboration realization recognition

STRONG

accession acquiescence allowance avowal compliance conceding concurrence declaration profession ratification yielding

WEAK

admitting asservation

Antonyms

STRONGEST

denial disagreement dissent refusal rejection repudiation veto

NOUN

giving

Synonyms

STRONGEST

offering

STRONG

awarding bequeathing ceding conferring contributing conveying dispensing distributing donating endowing expending furnishing granting imparting permitting presenting remitting supplying transferring yielding

WEAK

doling out handing out passing out

Antonyms

WEAK

appropriating getting taking

Example Sentences

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The case involved a challenge brought by Louisiana to a 2023 Food and Drug Administration decision allowing telehealth access to the drug.

From Slate • May 18, 2026

How to restrict access while still allowing users to share threat information is a major challenge facing AI companies, who are racing to deploy more powerful tools to keep pace with competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

One said she wants CPL to stop "allowing harm to come to people".

From BBC • May 18, 2026

Iranian state television said Friday the Revolutionary Guards were allowing more ships to transit the strait, after reporting a day earlier that "more than 30 ships" had been permitted to pass.

From Barron's • May 18, 2026

She walked quickly toward him, but he lowered his hands to deflect her hug, only allowing her to get a side squeeze in.

From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste

allowing

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