Dote vs Indulgent - What's the difference?
dote | indulgent |
To be excessively fond of.
(archaic) To act in a foolish manner; to be senile.
* Dryden
* South
(Ireland) A darling, a cutie.
* Ted’s daughter is such a dote .
(obsolete) An imbecile; a dotard.
Disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or give way to one's own or another's desires, etc., or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing; showing or ready to show favor; favorable; indisposed to be severe or harsh, or to exercise necessary restraint: as, an indulgent parent; to be indulgent to servants.
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*: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’.
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As a verb dote
is .As an adjective indulgent is
disposed or prone to indulge, humor, gratify, or give way to one's own or another's desires, etc, or to be compliant, lenient, or forbearing; showing or ready to show favor; favorable; indisposed to be severe or harsh, or to exercise necessary restraint: as, an indulgent parent; to be indulgent to servants.dote
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Alternative forms
* doat (obsolete)Verb
(dot)- Little Bill's parents just keep doting on him.
- Time has made you dote , and vainly tell / Of arms imagined in your lonely cell.
- He survived the use of his reason, grew infatuated, and doted long before he died.
Synonyms
* (to be fond of) adore, loveNoun
(en noun)- (Halliwell)
Anagrams
* ----indulgent
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Adjective
(en adjective)TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992), passage=Mr. Burns is similarly perfectly cast as a heartless capitalist willing to do anything for a quick buck, even if it means endangering the lives of those around him and Marge elegantly rounds out the main cast as a good, pure-hearted and overly indulgent woman who sees the big, good heart (literally and metaphorically) of a monstrous man-brute.}}