lenient

English

From Middle French lénient, from Latin lēniēns, present participle of lēnīre (“to soften, soothe”), from lēnis (“soft”).

lenient (comparative more lenient, superlative most lenient)

Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation
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 3163777:
  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.

tolerant; not strict

Belarusian: паблажлівы (pablažlivy), нястрогі (njastróhi), памяркоўны (pamjarkóŭny), спагадлівы (be) (spahadlivy)
Bulgarian: снизходителен (bg) (snizhoditelen)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 宽大 (zh) (kuāndà), 宽松 (zh)
Czech: shovívavý m
Dutch: toegeeflijk (nl), tolerant (nl), mild (nl)
Esperanto: malsevera
Finnish: lempeä (fi)
French: indulgent (fr), permissif (fr), laxiste (fr)
Georgian: ლმობიერი (lmobieri)
German: nachsichtig (de)
Indonesian: lunak (id)
Italian: permissivo (it), tollerante (it), indulgente (it)
Latin: clēmēns
Maori: ngāwari
Occitan: tolerant (oc), permissiu
Plautdietsch: lind
Portuguese: leniente (pt)
Romanian: tolerant (ro) m or n, tolerantă f, indulgent (ro) m or n, blând (ro) m or n, îngăduitor (ro) m or n
Russian: снисходи́тельный (ru) (snisxodítelʹnyj), мя́гкий (ru) (mjáxkij), терпи́мый (ru) (terpímyj)
Scottish Gaelic: tròcaireach
Serbo-Croatian: popustljiv (sh)
Spanish: tolerante (es), laxo (es), leniente (archaic, Peru), de manga ancha
Ukrainian: невимо́гливий (nevymóhlyvyj), виба́чливий (vybáčlyvyj)

lenient (plural lenients)

lēnient