PURITANICAL Antonyms

• characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone

• tolerant or lenient

• being favorably inclined

• tolerant or lenient

• not strict

• characterized by tolerance and mercy

• tolerant of change; not bound by authoritarianism, orthodoxy, or tradition

• a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties

• a person who favors an economic theory of laissez-faire and self-regulating markets

• showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

• having political or social views favoring reform and progress

• given or giving freely

• not literal

• a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained

• unrestrained by convention or morality

• not compact or dense in structure or arrangement

• not tight; not closely constrained or constricted or constricting

• not affixed

• without restraint

• (of a ball in sport) not in the possession or control of any player

• not officially recognized or controlled

• not literal

• emptying easily or excessively

• not tense or taut

• (of textures) full of small openings or gaps

• lacking a sense of restraint or responsibility

• not carefully arranged in a package

• having escaped, especially from confinement

• casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• turn loose or free from restraint

• make loose or looser

• become loose or looser or less tight

• not preventive

• granting or inclined or able to grant permission; not strict in discipline

• not selective of a single class or person

• casual and unrestrained in sexual behavior

• without strain or anxiety

• showing respect for the rights or opinions or practices of others

• tolerant and forgiving under provocation

• showing or characterized by broad-mindedness

• able to tolerate environmental conditions or physiological stress

• showing the capacity for endurance