merciful
adj/ˈmɜːsɪfl̩/UK/ˈmɝsɪfl̩/US
Etymology
From Middle English merciful, mercyful, equivalent to mercy + -ful. Displaced native Old English mildheort.
- inherited from merciful
Definitions
Showing mercy.
- `Listen, Holly. Thou art a good and honest man, and I fain would spare thee; but, oh! it is so hard for woman to be merciful.'
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
The neighborhood
- antonymcruel
- antonyminclement
- antonymmerciless
- antonymrelentless
- antonymunclement
- antonymunlenient
- antonymunmercied
- antonymunmerciful
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for merciful. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA