Usually means: Tolerant and not strictly enforcing.
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We found 30 dictionaries that define the word lenient:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lenient: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. lenient: Merriam-Webster
  3. lenient: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. lenient: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. lenient: Collins English Dictionary
  6. lenient: Vocabulary.com
  7. Lenient, lenient: Wordnik
  8. lenient: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. lenient: Wiktionary
  10. lenient: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. lenient: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. lenient: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Lenient, lenient: Dictionary.com
  14. lenient: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. lenient: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Lenient: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Lenient: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. lenient: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. lenient: Rhymezone
  20. Lenient: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. lenient: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. lenient: FreeDictionary.org
  23. lenient: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. lenient: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lenient: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lenient: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. lenient: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See leniently as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lax; not strict; tolerant of dissent or deviation.
noun:  (medicine) A lenitive; an emollient.

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