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lenient

adjetivosubstantivoatestado nos diálogos

  • //ˈliːni.ənt//

Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation.

adjetivo

  1. 1

    Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation.

    The standard is fairly lenient, so use your discretion.

    But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master; I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out. It had formerly been my endeavour to study all sides of his character; to take the bad with the good; and from the just weighing of both, to form an equitable judgment. Now I saw no bad.

Etimologia

From Middle French lénient, from Latin lēniēns (whence -i- + -ent), present participle of lēnīre (“to soften, soothe”), from lēnis (“soft”).

substantivo

  1. 1

    A lenitive; an emollient.

Formas

plural
lenients
comparativo
more lenient
superlativo
most lenient
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Conteúdo lexical proveniente do Wiktionary, sob licença CC BY-SA 4.0 · Entrada de origem · Versão dos dados 2026-08-23

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