benevolent

Synonyms

beneficent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted;

Antonyms

atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton;

Near Antonyms

ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted;

inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking;

grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimental;

hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent;

antihumanitarian, uncharitable;

Related Words

considerate, solicitous, thoughtful;

affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm;

clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft;

patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding;

altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing;