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発音

• IPA: /ˈliːni.ənt/

形容詞

lenient (comparative more lenient, superlative most lenient)

1. Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation.

   Synonyms: clement, permissive, forgiving, relaxed; see also Thesaurus:lenient, Thesaurus:merciful, Thesaurus:permissive

   Antonyms: strict, severe, stringent, unlenient

   The standard is fairly lenient, so use your discretion.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter XVIII, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], →OCLC:

     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.

派生語

関連する語

• lenience
• leniency
• lenity

名詞

lenient (plural lenients)

1. (medicine) A lenitive; an emollient.

Further reading

• “lenient”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “lenient”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “lenient”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.