'Merciful' definitions:
Definition of 'merciful'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Showing or giving mercy; "sought merciful treatment for the captives"; "a merciful god" [ant: merciless, unmerciful]
adjective
(used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious; "our merciful king"
Definition of 'Merciful'
From: GCIDE
- Merciful \Mer"ci*ful\, a. [Mercy + -ful.]
- 1. Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. Opposite of merciless. [1913 Webster]
- The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. --Ex. xxxiv. 6. [1913 Webster]
- Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unwilling to give pain; compassionate. [1913 Webster]
- A merciful man will be merciful to his beast. --Old Proverb. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Compassionate; tender; humane; gracious; kind; mild; clement; benignant. [1913 Webster] -- {Mer"ci*ful*ly}, adv. -- {Mer"ci*ful*ness}, n. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'merciful'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accepting,
- all-knowing,
- all-powerful,
- all-seeing,
- all-wise,
- almighty,
- beneficent,
- benign,
- benignant,
- big,
- bleeding,
- boundless,
- changeless,
- charitable,
- clement,
- commiserative,
- compassionate,
- condolent,
- considerate,
- creating,
- creative,
- easy,
- easygoing,
- eternal,
- eternally the same,
- everlasting,
- forbearant,
- forbearing,
- forgiving,
- generous,
- gentle,
- glorious,
- good,
- gracious,
- hallowed,
- highest,
- holy,
- human,
- humane,
- immortal,
- immutable,
- indulgent,
- infinite,
- just,
- kind,
- kindly,
- lax,
- lenient,
- liberal,
- limitless,
- loving,
- luminous,
- magnanimous,
- majestic,
- making,
- melting,
- mild,
- moderate,
- numinous,
- omnipotent,
- omnipresent,
- omniscient,
- one,
- patient,
- permanent,
- perpetual,
- pitiful,
- pitying,
- radiant,
- ruth,
- ruthful,
- sacred,
- shaping,
- soft,
- softhearted,
- sovereign,
- sparing,
- supreme,
- sympathetic,
- sympathizing,
- tender,
- tenderhearted,
- thoughtful,
- timeless,
- tolerant,
- ubiquitous,
- unbounded,
- unchanging,
- undefined,
- understanding,
- unlimited,
- warmhearted