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mercy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of mercy

1 kind, gentle, or compassionate treatment especially towards someone who is undeserving of it

always show your enemies mercy, because it makes you a better person

Synonyms of mercy

charity, clemency, forbearance, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercifulness, quarter

Words Related to mercy

humanitarianism, philanthropy

empathy, pity, sympathy, understanding

commiseration, favor, grace

benevolence, care, compassion, gentleness, goodness, goodwill, humaneness, kindliness, kindness, meekness, mildness, niceness, softness, tenderness

altruism, generosity, magnanimity, nobility

affection, devotion, love, worship

Near Antonyms of mercy

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

bile, jaundice, rancor

hatefulness, invidiousness

coarseness, hardness, harshness, roughness

2 an act of kind assistance

did a mercy for the stranded motorist and was richly rewarded

Synonyms of mercy

benevolence, boon, courtesy, favor, grace, indulgence, kindness, service, turn

Words Related to mercy

dispensation, waiver

advantage, benefit, blessing, godsend, manna

liberty, license (or licence), privilege

Near Antonyms of mercy

hindrance, hurdle, impediment, interference, obstacle

3 the capacity for feeling for another's unhappiness or misfortune

a woman of such mercy that she's been known to cry over dead rodents

Synonyms of mercy

bigheartedness, charity, commiseration, compassion, feeling, good-heartedness, heart, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, largeheartedness, pity, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, warmheartedness

Words Related to mercy

feelings, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitivity

affection, love, regard

affinity, empathy, rapport

altruism, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, generosity, goodwill, humaneness, humanism, humanitarianism, philanthropy

Near Antonyms of mercy

callousness, coldness, disinterest, indifference, unconcern

cruelty, harshness

animosity, antipathy, dislike, hatred, hostility

Antonyms of mercy

coldheartedness, hard-heartedness, inhumanity, inhumanness, mercilessness, pitilessness

Synonym Discussion of mercy

mercy, charity, clemency, grace, leniency mean a disposition to show kindness or compassion. mercy implies compassion that forbears punishing even when justice demands it.

- threw himself on the mercy of the court

charity stresses benevolence and goodwill shown in broad understanding and tolerance of others.

- show a little charity for the less fortunate

clemency implies a mild or merciful disposition in one having the power or duty of punishing.

- the judge refused to show clemency

grace implies a benign attitude and a willingness to grant favors or make concessions.

- by the grace of God

leniency implies lack of severity in punishing.

- criticized the courts for excessive leniency

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