Indulgent vs Munificent - What's the difference?
indulgent | munificent |
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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, title= (of a person or group) Very liberal in giving or bestowing.
* 1859 , , A Tale of Two Cities , ch. 30:
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Very generous; lavish.
* 1886 , , Jo's Boys , ch. 1:
* 1914 , , A Daughter of the Dons , ch. 25:
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As adjectives the difference between indulgent and munificent
is that 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 while munificent is (of a person or group) very liberal in giving or bestowing.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.}}
Synonyms
* forbearing * gentle * lenient * tolerantDerived terms
* indulgential * indulgentlyReferences
* ----munificent
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(en adjective)- Tellson's Bank . . . was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate.
Politics: Milkmen Skimming Off More Cream," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- [M]ilk producers are among the most munificent backers of political campaigns in the U.S.
Broad-Minded Museum," New York Review of Books (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- An exceptionally munificent benefactor of several institutions, he has given $100 million each to MIT and Harvard.
- On the hill, where kites used to be flown, stood the fine college which Mr Laurence's munificent legacy had built.
- It was all very well for this casual youth to make her a present of a half million acres of land in this debonair way, but she could not persuade herself to accept so munificent a gift.
Business: Up, Up and Away with Wages," Time (retrieved 5 Sept 2013):
- The machinists finally agreed to a munificent increase averaging 5.7% a year for three years.
