Related Searches
on Ask.com
mercy - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | mercy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, blessing, boon, charity, clemency, commiseration, favor, forbearance, forgiveness, generosity, gentleness, godsend, goodwill, grace, humanity, leniency, luck, mildness, pity, quarter, relief, ruth, sympathy, tenderness, tolerance, benignancy, kindliness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, softheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, intolerance, meanness, uncompassion |
| Main Entry: | absolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, amnesty, forgiveness, mercy, pardon, release, compurgation, exculpation |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | charity, compassion, endurance, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, leniency, mercy, mildness, moderation, tenderness, tolerance, caritas, equitableness, justness, lenience, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, soft-heartedness, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | no mercy |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humanity, kindness, mercy, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, yearning, humaneness, lenity, softheartedness, tenderheartedness |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, tyranny, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | forgiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pardon; end of blame |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, amnesty, charity, clemency, compassion, dispensation, exoneration, extenuation, grace, immunity, impunity, indemnity, justification, mercy, quarter, remission, reprieve, respite, vindication, condonation, exculpation, lenience, lenity, overlooking, palliation, purgation, quittance, remittal |
| Antonyms: | accusation, blame, censure, charge, punishment, sentence |
| Main Entry: | goodness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | decency, excellence |
| Synonyms: | advantage, benefit, benevolence, friendliness, generosity, good will, grace, honesty, honor, integrity, kindheartedness, kindness, mercy, merit, morality, nourishment, probity, quality, rectitude, righteousness, superiority, uprightness, value, virtue, worth, beneficence, ethicality, graciousness, humaneness, kindliness, obligingness, rightness, wholesomeness |
| Antonyms: | evil, indecency, meanness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | pardon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, allowance, amnesty, anchor, clemency, commute, discharge, excuse, exoneration, forbearance, freeing, grace, indemnity, indulgence, justification, kindness, mercy, release, remission, reprieve, vindication, conciliation, condonation, exculpation, indemnification, lifeboat, lifesaver |
| Notes: | a pardon is the act of excusing a mistake or offense; an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness |
| Antonyms: | condemnation, damning, penalty, punishment, chastisement, ostracization |
| Main Entry: | sanctity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | holiness |
| Synonyms: | blessedness, consecration, devotion, divinity, faith, godliness, goodness, grace, mercy, piety, purity, reverence, righteousness, solemnity, spirituality, asceticism, devoutness, divineness, hallowedness, inviolability, religiousness, sacredness, saintliness, venerableness |
| Main Entry: | leniency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forbearance |
| Synonyms: | charity, compassion, kindness, mercy, tolerance, lenience, lenity |
| Main Entry: | pity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of mercy toward another |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, comfort, commiseration, compassion, compunction, condolence, dejection, distress, empathy, favor, forbearance, goodness, grace, humanity, kindness, melancholy, mercy, philanthropy, quarter, rue, ruth, sadness, solace, sorrow, sympathy, tenderness, understanding, warmth, condolement, kindliness, lenity |
| Antonyms: | disdain, malevolence, mercilessness |
| Main Entry: | remission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | acquittal, pardon |
| Synonyms: | absolution, amnesty, discharge, excuse, exemption, exoneration, forgiveness, indulgence, mercy, release, reprieve |
| Antonyms: | accusation, blame |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | open-mindedness |
| Synonyms: | altruism, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassion, concession, endurance, forbearance, freedom, good will, grace, humanity, indulgence, kindness, leniency, license, magnanimity, mercy, patience, permission, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, broad-mindedness, lenience, lenity, liberalism, liberality, liberalness, mercifulness, permissiveness, sufferance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | bias, disapproval, intolerance, prejudice, narrow-mindedness |
| Main Entry: | tolerance |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | open-mindedness |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, altruism, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassion, endurance, good will, grace, humanity, kindness, leniency, mercy, patience, sensitivity, sympathy, understanding, charitableness, generousness, lenity, toleration |
| Antonyms: | bias, bigotry, disapproval, intolerance, prejudice |
| Main Entry: | charity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kindness, compassion |
| Synonyms: | affection, agape, altruism, amity, attachment, benevolence, bounty, clemency, fellow feeling, generosity, goodness, goodwill, grace, humanity, indulgence, love, magnanimity, mercy, benignity, bountifulness, caritas, humaneness, kindliness, lenity, tenderheartedness |
| Antonyms: | malevolence, uncharitableness, unkindness |
| Main Entry: | humanity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benevolence |
| Synonyms: | altruism, amity, charity, compassion, empathy, feeling, friendship, generosity, goodness, goodwill, heart, kindheartedness, kindness, mercy, sympathy, brotherly love |
| Main Entry: | kindness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | helping act; service |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, aid, alms, assistance, benediction, benefaction, benevolence, blessing, boon, boost, bounty, charity, dispensation, favor, generosity, good deed, help, indulgence, lift, mercy, philanthropy, relief, succor, benison, good turn |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, barbarousness |
| Main Entry: | softness |
| Part of Speech: | noun2 |
| Definition: | compassion |
| Synonyms: | charity, empathy, heart, humanity, kindness, mercy, sympathy, tenderness |
| Main Entry: | consideration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high regard |
| Synonyms: | awareness, concern, esteem, estimation, favor, forbearance, friendliness, heed, kindness, mercy, respect, solicitude, tact, thoughtfulness, tolerance, attentiveness, considerateness, heedfulness, kindliness, mindfulness |
| Antonyms: | disdain, disregard |
| Main Entry: | quarter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | clemency, compassion, favor, grace, leniency, mercy, pity, lenity |
| Antonyms: | disfavor, mercilessness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
Cite This Source
Copyright © 2009, Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
