different between lenient vs considerate

English

Etymology

From Middle French lénient, from Latin l?niens, present participle of l?n?re (“to soften, soothe”), from l?nis (“soft”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?li?ni.?nt/

Adjective

lenient (comparative more lenient, superlative most lenient)

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

   The standard is fairly lenient, so use your discretion.

   • 1847, Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Chapter XVIII

     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.

Synonyms

• lax, permissive

Antonyms

• strict
• severe
• stringent
• unlenient

Related terms

• lenience
• leniency
• lenity

Derived terms

• leniently
• unlenient

Translations

Noun

lenient (plural lenients)

1. (medicine) A lenitive; an emollient.

Further reading

• lenient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• lenient in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• lenient at OneLook Dictionary Search

Latin

Verb

l?nient

1. third-person plural future active indicative of l?ni?

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?s?d???t/

Adjective

considerate (comparative more considerate, superlative most considerate)

1. consciously thoughtful and observant (often of other people); caring

   It was very considerate of you to give up your place for your friend.

2. characterised by careful and conscious thought; deliberate

Antonyms

• inconsiderate

Related terms

• consider
• consideration
• considerately
• considerateness

Translations

Verb

considerate (third-person singular simple present considerates, present participle considerating, simple past and past participle considerated)

1. (rare) Synonym of consider

Anagrams

• decreations, desecration, resonicated

Interlingua

Participle

considerate

1. past participle of considerar

Italian

Adjective

considerate

1. feminine plural of considerato

Verb

considerate

1. inflection of considerare:
   1. second-person plural present
   2. second-person plural imperative
   3. feminine plural past participle

Anagrams

• esercitando, estraendoci, stenocardie

Latin

Adverb

c?ns?der?t? (comparative c?ns?der?tius, superlative c?ns?der?tissim?)

1. considerately, carefully, cautiously

Verb

c?ns?der?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of c?ns?der?

References

• considerate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• considerate in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• considerate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.