merciful
adjectiveHow many syllables in merciful?
There are 3 syllables in the word merciful.How to pronounce merciful:
Definition of merciful:
- merciful (adjective):
- providing relief
- showing or giving mercy.
- full of mercy compassionate
Synonyms for merciful:
attentive
beneficent
benevolent
benignant
clement
compassionate
considerate
forbearing
forgiving
generous
gentle
good
gracious
humane
kind
kindhearted
kindly
lenient
liberal
nice
patient
pitying
soft
solicitous
sweet
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Antonyms for merciful:
abhorrent
abominable
adverse
affectless
aloof
antagonistic
antipathetic
apathetic
appalling
atrocious
bad
bad-natured
bad-tempered
barbaric
barbarous
base
beastly
bestial
bitter
bloodless
bloodthirsty
brutal
brute
brutish
butcherly
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- hierarchal
- fraudulence
- rivulet
- rapier
- double-u
- famously
- plausibly
- lighthearted
- sensibly
- nonetheless
- diminish
- verbalize
- chronicles
- ennoble
- abruptness
- mannequin
- audibly
- tenuous
- critiqued
- obscenely
- devoutly
- debacle
- satiates
- unflinching
- pitying
- overripe
- insolent
- designate
- abutting
- pompously
- seasonal
- complaisant
- surfeiting
- venerates
- allaying
- misconceive
- assistants
- shininess
- canalize
- expended
- pacify
- heavily
- distrustful
- submerging
- edemic
- pitiable
- disembark
- cleverer
- unprompted
- antedate
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