Synonyms for merciful
ˈmɜr sɪ fəlmer·ci·ful

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1. mercifuladjective

   Antonyms:
   merciless, cruel

2. mercifuladjective

   Antonyms:
   cruel, merciless

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1. merciful

   Human denotes what pertains to mankind, with no suggestion as to its being good or evil; as, the human race; human qualities; we speak of human achievements, virtues, or excellences, human follies, vices, or crimes. Humane denotes what may rightly be expected of mankind at its best in the treatment of sentient beings; a humane enterprise or endeavor is one that is intended to prevent or relieve suffering. The humane man will not needlessly inflict pain upon the meanest thing that lives; a merciful man is disposed to withhold or mitigate the suffering even of the guilty. The compassionate man sympathizes with and desires to relieve actual suffering, while one who is humane would forestall and prevent the suffering which he sees to be possible. Compare MERCY; PITIFUL; PITY.

   See synonyms for BARBAROUS.

   Synonyms:
   benevolent, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, forgiving, gentle, gracious, human, humane, kind, kind-hearted, pitying, sympathetic, tender, tender-hearted

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1. merciful

   Synonyms:
   compassionate, kindhearted, clement, gracious, kind

   Antonyms:
   pitiless, unrelenting, remorseless, inexorable

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1. mercifuladjective

   showing or giving mercy

   "sought merciful treatment for the captives"; "a merciful god"

   Antonyms:
   unmerciful, fierce, unpitying, tigerish, merciless, bowelless, ungracious, cutthroat, ruthless, mortal(a), pitiless, remorseless

2. mercifuladjective

   (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious

   "our merciful king"

   Antonyms:
   pitiless, unpitying, merciless, cutthroat, bowelless, tigerish, ruthless, unmerciful, remorseless, fierce, ungracious, mortal(a)

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1. mercifuladjective

   Synonyms:
   gracious, kind, compassionate, tender, benignant, lenient, mild, gentle, pitiful, tender-hearted

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1. mercifuladjective

   Synonyms:
   pitiful, lenient, clement, compassionate, benignant, indulgent, kind, gracious, forgiving

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1. List of paraphrases for "merciful":

   clément, clemente, rahim, compassionate, al-raheem, raheem, al-rahim, mercy, gracious, charitable, lenient, benevolent

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How to use merciful in a sentence?

1. New York:

   So we feel it's only merciful to give our Knicks beat writer, Scott Cacciola, a break from such woeful basketball.

2. Central Command Twitter feed:

   In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the CyberCaliphate continues its CyberJihad.

3. Douglas William Jerrold:

   He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.

4. Joseph Smith, Jr.:

   Ever keep in exercise the principle of mercy, and be ready to forgive our brother on the first intimations of repentance, and asking forgiveness; and should we even forgive our brother, or even our enemy, before he repent or ask forgiveness, our heavenly Father would be equally as merciful unto us.

5. Mary Stewart:

   I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark.