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for nonindulgent
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
nonindulgent \nonindulgent\ adj.
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.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. unpermissive. Opposite of permissive.
[WordNet 1.5]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
nonindulgent
adj 1: characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint [syn:
nonindulgent, strict] [ant: indulgent]
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