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SELF-INDULGENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does self-indulgent mean?
• SELF-INDULGENT (adjective)
The adjective SELF-INDULGENT has 1 sense:
1. indulgent of your own appetites and desires
Familiarity information: SELF-INDULGENT used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indulgent of your own appetites and desires
Context example:
a self-indulgent...way of looking at life
Similar:
indulgent (characterized by or given to yielding to the wishes of someone)
Derivation:
self-indulgence (excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence)
self-indulgence (an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires)
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