merciful as an adjective: - 1
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merciful
adjective
1 merciful
Showing or giving mercy.
Roget 906:
benevolent;
kind,
kindly;
well-meaning;
amiable;
obliging,
accommodating,
indulgent,
gracious,
complacent,
good-humored.
warm-hearted,
kind-hearted,
tender-hearted,
large-hearted,
broad-hearted;
merciful
etc.
914;
charitable,
beneficent,
humane,
benignant;
bounteous,
bountiful.
good-natured,
well-natured;
spleenless†;
sympathizing,
sympathetic;
complaisant
etc.
(courteous)
894;
well-meant,
well-intentioned.
fatherly,
motherly,
brotherly,
sisterly;
paternal,
maternal,
fraternal;
sororal†;
friendly
etc.
888.
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Roget 914:
pitying
etc.
v.;
pitiful,
compassionate,
sympathetic,
touched.
merciful,
clement,
ruthful;
humane;
humanitarian
etc.
(philanthropic)
910;
tender,
tender hearted,
tender as a chicken;
soft,
soft hearted;
unhardened†;
lenient
etc.
740;
exorable†,
forbearing;
melting
etc.
v.;
weak.
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Polish: miłościwy, miłosierny, litościwy
2 merciful
used conventionally of royalty and high nobility Gracious.
Moby thesaurus: accepting, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, beneficent, benign, benignant, big, bleeding, boundless, changeless, charitable, clement, commiserative, compassionate, condolent, considerate, creating, creative, easy, easygoing, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, glorious, good, gracious, hallowed, highest, holy, human, humane, immortal, immutable, indulgent, infinite, just, kind, kindly, lax, lenient, liberal, limitless, loving, luminous, magnanimous, majestic, making, melting, mild, moderate, numinous, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, patient, permanent, perpetual, pitiful, pitying, radiant, ruth, ruthful, sacred, shaping, soft, softhearted, sovereign, sparing, supreme, sympathetic, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, thoughtful, timeless, tolerant, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, understanding, unlimited, warmhearted ... show more.
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