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mercifuladjective showing kindness and forgiveness instead of harshness or cruelty especially to someone under one's authority or controlWhen our English teacher caught us cheating, we prayed he would be merciful in deciding our punishment. clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, softpatient, pitying, tolerant, understandingbeneficent, benevolent, benignant, compassionate, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmheartedattentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtfulaffable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warmaltruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic(also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparinganticruelty, cruelty-free grim, hard-boiled, harsh, heavy-handed, severe, stern, tough, unsentimentalironhearted, merciless, pitiless, ruthless, stonyheartedinconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, uncaring, unthinkinghateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, spiteful, virulentantihumanitarian, uncharitableatrocious, 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 in the 14th century |