Thesaurus
mercy
Synonyms and Antonyms of mercy
- always show your enemies mercy, because it makes you a better person
hard-heartedness, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness, uncharitableness
reprisal, requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance
venom, vindictiveness, virulence, vitriol
atrocity, barbarity, brutality, cruelty, sadism, savageness, savagery, truculence, viciousness, violence, wantonness
castigation, chastisement, discipline, punishment, scolding
abhorrence, abomination, detestation, execration, hate, hatred, loathing
cattiness, malevolence, malice, maliciousness, malignancy, malignity, meanness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness, spleen
animosity, antagonism, antipathy, bitterness, enmity, gall, grudge, hostility, jealousy, pique, resentment
- did a mercy for the stranded motorist and was richly rewarded
benevolence, boon, courtesy, favor, grace, indulgence, kindness, service, turn
- a woman of such mercy that sheʼs been known to cry over dead rodents
Synonym Discussion of mercy
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- threw himself on the mercy of the court
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- show a little charity for the less fortunate
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- the judge refused to show clemency
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- by the grace of God
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- criticized the courts for excessive leniency
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