nonindulgent

Adjective
Synonyms: strict

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Adjective (1)

  1. characterized by strictness, severity, or restraintSynonyms: strictOpposite indulgentSimilar austere, monkish, severe, corrective, blue, renunciant, self-disciplinedSee also abstemious
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

nonindulgent adjective

1. not indulgent. [Narrower terms: austere, forbidding, stern ; blue(prenominal), puritan, puritanical ; corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal ; monkish ; renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying ; self-disciplined ; spartan, strict ] Also See abstemious. Antonym: indulgent.

2. unpermissive. Opposite of permissive.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54 · with additions: WordNet 1.5

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