What are some opposite words for grace?
Antonyms for grace
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
grace
Mercy is the exercise of less severity than one deserves, or in a more extended sense, the granting of kindness or favor beyond what one may rightly claim. Grace is favor, kindness, or blessing shown to the undeserving; forgiveness, mercy, and pardon are exercised toward the ill-deserving. Pardon remits the outward penalty which the offender deserves; forgiveness dismisses resentment or displeasure from the heart of the one offended; mercy seeks the highest possible good of the offender. There may be mercy without pardon, as in the mitigation of sentence, or in all possible alleviation of necessary severity; there may be cases where pardon would not be mercy, since it would encourage to repetition of the offense, from which timely punishment might have saved. Mercy is also used in the wider sense of refraining from harshness or cruelty toward those who are in one's power without fault of their own; as, they besought the robber to have mercy. Clemency is a colder word than mercy, and without its religious associations, signifying mildness and moderation in the use of power where severity would have legal or military, rather than moral sanction; it often denotes a habitual mildness of disposition on the part of the powerful, and is matter rather of good nature or policy than of principle. Leniency or lenity denotes an easy-going avoidance of severity; these words are more general and less magisterial than clemency; we should speak of the leniency of a parent, the clemency of a conqueror. Compare PITY.
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cruelty, hardness, harshness, implacability, justice, penalty, punishment, revenge, rigor, severity, sternness, vengeanceSynonyms:
benevolence, benignity, blessing, clemency, compassion, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, gentleness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, mildness, pardon, pardon, pity, tendernessPreposition:
The mercy of God to or toward sinners; have mercy on or upon one.
Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
grace
Antonyms:
disfavor, deformity, unkindness, pride, inelegance, awkwardness, gawkinessSynonyms:
favor, beauty, condescension, kindness, elegance, charm, excellence, pardon, mercy
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Princeton's WordNet
grace, saving grace, state of gracenoun
(Christian theology) a state of sanctification by God; the state of one who is under such divine influence
"the conception of grace developed alongside the conception of sin"; "it was debated whether saving grace could be obtained outside the membership of the church"; "the Virgin lived in a state of grace"
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gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemlinessgrace, gracilitynoun
elegance and beauty of movement or expression
"a beautiful figure which she used in subtle movements of unparalleled grace"
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gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemlinessseemliness, gracenoun
a sense of propriety and consideration for others
"a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace"
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gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, blessing, free grace, seemliness, grace of God, goodwillgrace, good will, goodwillnoun
a disposition to kindness and compassion
"the victor's grace in treating the vanquished"
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gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemlinessGracenoun
(Greek mythology) one of three sisters who were the givers of beauty and charm; a favorite subject for sculptors
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gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemlinessgrace, blessing, thanksgivingnoun
a short prayer of thanks before a meal
"their youngest son said grace"
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approval, gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, boon, free grace, blessing, benediction, approving, grace of God, goodwill, seemlinessgrace, grace of God, free graceverb
(Christian theology) the free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God
"God's grace is manifested in the salvation of sinners"; "there but for the grace of God go I"
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gracility, thanksgiving, state of grace, good will, saving grace, free grace, blessing, grace of God, goodwill, seemlinessdecorate, adorn, grace, ornament, embellish, beautifyverb
make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.
"Decorate the room for the party"; "beautify yourself for the special day"
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fancify, dramatise, ornament, adorn, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, aggrandize, blow up, embroider, dress, lard, embellish, prettify, beautify, pad, dramatize, investdeck, adorn, decorate, grace, embellish, beautifyverb
be beautiful to look at
"Flowers adorned the tables everywhere"
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fancify, dramatise, bedeck, ornament, adorn, dump, deck, decorate, clothe, aggrandise, invest, blow up, aggrandize, embroider, dress, lard, coldcock, embellish, prettify, bedight, beautify, floor, knock down, pad, dramatize
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
gracenoun
Synonyms:
compassion, lenity, mercy, benevolence, love, excellence, virtue, beauty, loveliness, gracefulness, comeliness, refinement, elegance, courtliness, culture, polish, holiness, saintliness, sanctity, devoutnessgraceverb
How to use grace in a sentence?
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully.
The law demands good works and uses its terror--rejection, shame, fear of punishment, unanswered prayer, personal tragedy, etc.--as motivation. Here performance is a necessity to secure the blessings and avoid the curses. Grace, on the other hand, allows us to serve on a different basis--not from fear but on the basis of love and gratitude, from appreciation and gladness for blessings freely given and freely received.
Grace Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads--they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude.
Your beauty puts me in such grace that I cannot move, like a dead rabbit to a roman hunter. - Anthony "Kubilay" Girit
Counterintuitive as it may seem, you can actually function fairly well with just one half of the brain, so in Lillian Grace case in particular, we felt very comfortable disconnecting the right side of the brain from the nervous system.
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