Indulgently

Definition: Indulgently

Indulgently

Adverb

1. In an indulgent manner; "I was indulgently advised to give the kids what they wanted unless I wished my son to be socially ostracised".

Date "indulgently" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references)

Crosswords: Indulgently

English words defined with "indulgently": luxuriously ♦ voluptuously. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	The episode ended well for both Heron and Wallis laughed indulgently at the irreverence.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Indulgently" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Indulgently" is used about 55 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	100%	55	45,713

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "indulgently": self-indulgently.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "indulgently"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		butësisht (gently). (various references)

Arabic		‏على نحو متسامح, ‏على نحو متساهل. (various references)

Bulgarian		задоволяващо. (various references)

Chinese		纵容地. (various references)

Czech		shovívavì. (various references)

French		complaisamment, avec indulgence. (various references)

German		nachsichtige (clemently), nachsichtig (clement, forbearing, forbearingly, indulgent, lenient, leniently, soft, tolerant, tolerantly). (various references)

Hungarian		elnézõen. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		�"�やかして育てる (to bring up indulgently). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		あまやかしてそ� てる (to bring up indulgently). (various references)

Korean		멋대로 하게 하. (various references)

Manx		dy meiygh (approvingly), dy bog (softly). (various references)

Pig Latin		indulgentlyay

Portuguese		indulgentemente, tolerante (broad minded, largeness, permissiveness, tolerant). (various references)

Russian		снисходительно (graciously). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		popustljivo (amenably). (various references)

Spanish		indulgentemente (graciously), tolerantemente, complacientemente (complacently). (various references)

Turkish		hoşgörüyle (decently), anlayışla (knowingly). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings
	"Indulgently" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indugently, indullently. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "indulgently" (pronounced 'In*dul"gent*ly'): Abandonedly, Abasedly, Abashedly, Abhorrently, Abidingly, Abjectly, Abnormally, Abominably, Aboriginally, Abortively, Abruptly, Absently, Absolutely, Absorbedly, Abstinently, Abstractedly, Abstractively, Abstractly, Abstrusely, Absurdly, Abundantly, Abusively, Abysmally, Academically, Accentually, Acceptably, Acceptedly, Accessarily, Accessibly, Accessorily, Accidentally, Accommodately, Accordantly, Accordingly, Accountably, Accurately, Accusatively, Accusatorially, Accusingly, Accustomably, Accustomarily, Achromatically, Acidly, Acknowledgedly, Acoustically, Acquiescently, Acquisitively, Acridly, Acrimoniously, Acrocephaly. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-e-g-i-l-l-n-n-t-u-y"
	-2 letters: indulgent.
	-3 letters: duelling, glutelin, ungently, unitedly, untilled, untinged.
	-4 letters: denting, denying, diluent, dueling, dulling, dunnite, dunting, eluding, eluting, enduing, gelidly, gillnet, glinted, gullied, guyline, indulge, lending, lunting, nulling, nullity, telling, tending, tingled, undying, unlined, untying, yelling.
	-5 letters: dentil, dentin, dilute, dingey, dingle, duelli, dunite, dunlin, dyeing, dynein, edgily, ending, engild, englut, gentil, gently, gilled.
	Words containing the letters "d-e-g-i-l-l-n-n-t-u-y"
	+4 letters: grandiloquently.
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