From Latin indulgēns, present participle of indulgēre.

• IPA: /ɪnˈdʌld͡ʒənt/

indulgent

1. Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or yield to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing;

   an indulgent parent

   to be indulgent to servants

   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part I, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     An indulgent playmate, Grannie would lay aside the long scratchy-looking letter she was writing (heavily crossed ‘to save notepaper’) and enter into the delightful pastime of ‘a chicken from Mr Whiteley's’.

• forbearing
• gentle
• lenient
• tolerant

• indulge
• indulgement
• indulgence
• indulgency
• indulger
• indulgiate

• French: indulgent
• German: nachgiebig, zu verwöhnen tendierend, verwöhnen wollend
• Portuguese: indulgente
• Russian: снисходи́тельный
• Spanish: indulgente

• German: ausgelassen, sich verwöhnend, sich etwas gönnend

• German: mild, nachsichtig, duldsam, gutmütig