Word Meanings - SELF-INDULGENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indulging one's appetites, desires, etc., freely.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SELF-INDULGENT)

• Licentious
• Voluptuous
• dissolute
• rakish
• debauched
• self-indulgent
• lax
• profligate
• loose
• unbridled
• Selfish
• Egotistical
• self-minded
• self-worshipful
• worldly
• illiberal
• ungenerous
• narrowminded
• mercenary
• greedy
• Sensual
• luxurious
• Self-indulgent
• licentious
• highly pleasant

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SELF-INDULGENT)

• Tie
• fasten
• hold
• retain

Related words: (words related to SELF-INDULGENT)

• WORLDLY
  1. Relating to the world; human; common; as, worldly maxims; worldly actions. "I thus neglecting worldly ends." Shak. Many years it hath continued, standing by no other worldly mean but that one only hand which erected it. Hooker. 2. Pertaining
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• RAKISH
  Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.
• SELFISHLY
  In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly.
• WORLDLY-MINDED
  Devoted to worldly interests; mindful of the affairs of the present life, and forgetful of those of the future; loving and pursuing this world's goods, to the exclusion of piety and attention to spiritual concerns. -- World"ly*mind`ed*ness, n.
• SELFISHNESS
  The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without
• SENSUALISTIC
  1. Sensual. 2. Adopting or teaching the doctrines of sensualism.
• DEBAUCHMENT
  The act of corrupting; the act of seducing from virtue or duty.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• DISSOLUTE
  1. With nerves unstrung; weak. Spenser. 2. Loosed from restraint; esp., loose in morals and conduct; recklessly abandoned to sensual pleasures; profligate; wanton; lewd; debauched. "A wild and dissolute soldier." Motley. Syn. -- Uncurbed;
• UNGENEROUSLY
  In an ungenerous manner.
• FASTENER
  One who, or that which, makes fast or firm.
• LUXURIOUS
  Of or pertaining to luxury; ministering to luxury; supplied with the conditions of luxury; as, a luxurious life; a luxurious table; luxurious ease. " Luxurious cities. " Milton. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Lux*u"ri*ous*ness, n.
• SENSUAL
  1. Pertaining to, consisting in, or affecting, the sense, or bodily organs of perception; relating to, or concerning, the body, in distinction from the spirit. Pleasing and sensual rites and ceremonies. Bacon. Far as creation's ample range extends,
• SENSUALISM
  The doctrine that all our ideas, or the operations of the understanding, not only originate in sensation, but are transformed sensations, copies or relics of sensations; sensationalism; sensism. (more info) 1. The condition or character of one
• DEBAUCHNESS
  Debauchedness.
• DEBAUCH
  To lead away from purity or excellence; to corrupt in character or principles; to mar; to vitiate; to pollute; to seduce; as, to debauch one's self by intemperance; to debauch a woman; to debauch an army. Learning not debauched by ambition. Burke.
• PLEASANT-TONGUED
  Of pleasing speech.
• LOOSE
  laus, Icel. lauss; akin to OD. loos, D. los, AS. leás false, deceitful, G. los, loose, Dan. & Sw. lös, Goth. laus, and E. lose. 1. Unbound; untied; unsewed; not attached, fastened, fixed, or confined; as, the loose sheets of a book. Her hair,
• OVERGREEDY
  Excessively greedy.
• TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
  A tetrahexahedron.
• UNFASTEN
  To loose; to unfix; to unbind; to untie.