Thesaurus
merciful
Synonyms and Antonyms of merciful
- When our English teacher caught us cheating, we prayed he would be merciful in deciding our punishment.
clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, soft
patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding
beneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted
attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful
affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm
altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing
grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimental
ironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyhearted
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinking
hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulent
antihumanitarian, uncharitable
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
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