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austere forbidding stern

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.

  2. unpermissive. Opposite of permissive.