Lenient vs Magnanimous - What's the difference?
lenient | magnanimous |
Lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict.
* 1847 , , (Jane Eyre), Chapter XVIII
Noble and generous in spirit.
As adjectives the difference between lenient and magnanimous
is that lenient is lax; tolerant of deviation; permissive; not strict while magnanimous is noble and generous in spirit.As a noun lenient
is a lenitive; an emollient.lenient
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Synonyms
* lax, permissiveAntonyms
* strict * severe * stringentExternal links
* * * ----magnanimous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- He thinks himself ardent, impulsive, passionate, magnanimous — capable of boundless enthusiasm for an idea or a sentiment.
- magnanimous forgiveness
