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. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. unpermissive. Opposite of permissive. [ WordNet 1.5 ]