Antonyms for merciful
ˈmɜr sɪ fəlmer·ci·ful

WiktionaryRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mercifuladjective

   Antonyms:
   merciless, cruel

2. mercifuladjective

   Antonyms:
   cruel, merciless

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. merciful

   Antonyms:
   pitiless, unrelenting, remorseless, inexorable

   Synonyms:
   compassionate, kindhearted, clement, gracious, kind

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

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)

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated WordsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. mercifuladjective

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

How to use merciful in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. H.P.LOVECRAFT:

   The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

3. Anna Jameson:

   All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.

4. Proverb:

   The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.

5. Central Command Twitter feed:

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

How to pronounce merciful?

How to say merciful in sign language?

Words popularity by usage frequency