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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: 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: 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
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