Antonyms of adj nonindulgent
1 sense of nonindulgent
Sense 1
nonindulgent (vs. indulgent), strict -- (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)
indulgent (vs. nonindulgent) -- (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone ; "indulgent grandparents")
=> decadent, effete -- (marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals")
=> dissipated, betting, card-playing, sporting -- (preoccupied with the pursuit of pleasure and especially games of chance; "led a dissipated life"; "a betting man"; "a card-playing son of a bitch"; "a gambling fool"; "sporting gents and their ladies")
=> epicurean, luxurious, luxuriant, sybaritic, voluptuary, voluptuous -- (displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses; "an epicurean banquet"; "enjoyed a luxurious suite with a crystal chandelier and thick oriental rugs"; "Lucullus spent the remainder of his days in voluptuous magnificence"; "a chinchilla robe of sybaritic lavishness")
=> gay -- (given to social pleasures often including dissipation; "led a gay Bohemian life"; "a gay old rogue with an eye for the ladies")
=> hedonic, hedonistic, epicurean -- (devoted to pleasure; "a hedonic thrill"; "lives of unending hedonistic delight"; "epicurean pleasures")
=> intemperate, hard, heavy -- (given to excessive indulgence of bodily appetites especially for intoxicating liquors; "a hard drinker")
=> overindulgent -- (excessively indulgent)
=> pampering (prenominal) -- (gratifying tastes, appetites, or desires; "pampering parents often have spoilt children"; "a very pampering cruise experience")
=> self-indulgent -- (indulgent of your own appetites and desires; "a self-indulgent...way of looking at life"- Havelock Ellis)
Similarity of adj nonindulgent
1 sense of nonindulgent
Sense 1
nonindulgent (vs. indulgent), strict -- (characterized by strictness, severity, or restraint)
=> austere, stern -- (of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face")
=> blue (prenominal), puritanic, puritanical -- (morally rigorous and strict; "the puritan work ethic"; "puritanic distaste for alcohol"; "she was anything but puritanical in her behavior")
=> corrective, disciplinary, disciplinal -- (designed to promote discipline; "the teacher's action was corrective rather than instructional"; "disciplinal measures"; "the mother was stern and disciplinary")
=> monkish -- (befitting a monk; inclined to self-denial)
=> renunciant, renunciative, self-abnegating, self-denying -- (used especially of behavior)
=> self-disciplined, self-restraining -- (used of nonindulgent persons)
=> severe, spartan -- (unsparing and uncompromising in discipline or judgment; "a parent severe to the pitch of hostility"- H.G.Wells; "a hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien"; "a strict disciplinarian"; "a Spartan upbringing")
Also See-> abstemious#1