What are some opposite words for merciful?
Antonyms for merciful
ˈmɜr sɪ fəlmer·ci·ful
This page is about all possible antonyms and opposite words for the term merciful.
English Synonyms and Antonyms
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 Antonyms
merciful
Antonyms:
pitiless, unrelenting, remorseless, inexorableSynonyms:
compassionate, kindhearted, clement, gracious, kind
Princeton's WordNet
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, remorselessmercifuladjective
(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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How to use merciful in a sentence?
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.
The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
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.
The court is most merciful when the accused is most rich.
In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful, the CyberCaliphate continues its CyberJihad.
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#11289 | cruel | |
#15142 | fierce | |
#26085 | ruthless | |
#31594 | merciful | |
#47449 | cutthroat | |
#48929 | merciless | |
#49169 | unrelenting | |
#73839 | inexorable | |
#103416 | pitiless | |
#151356 | remorseless | |
#215380 | ungracious | |
#222327 | unmerciful |
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