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| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | gentle, temperate, nonirritating |
| Synonyms: | balmy, benign, blah*, bland, breezy, calm, choice, clear, clement, cool, dainty, delicate, easy, emollient, exquisite, faint, fine, flat, genial, lenient, light, lukewarm, medium, mellow, moderate, nothing, pabulum, pacific, peaceful, placid, smooth, soft, soothing, sunny, tepid, untroubled, vanilla*, warm, weak, benignant, demulcent, ho-hum, lenitive, mollifying, nothing much, tempered, wimpy |
| Antonyms: | fierce, harsh, rough, violent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mild |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, pleasant in personality |
| Synonyms: | amiable, balmy, bland, calm, clement, compassionate, complaisant, deferential, docile, dull, easy, equable, feeble, flat, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, humane, indulgent, insipid, jejune, kind, lenient, meek, mellow, merciful, moderate, obeisant, obliging, pacific, patient, peaceable, placid, serene, smooth, soft, spiritless, subdued, submissive, subservient, tame, temperate, tender, tranquil, unassuming, vapid, warm, forbearant, good-tempered, mild-mannered |
| Antonyms: | agitated, nervous, flappable |
| Main Entry: | affable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly |
| Synonyms: | amiable, amicable, approachable, benevolent, benign, breezy, civil, congenial, cordial, courteous, genial, gentle, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kindly, mild, nice, obliging, pleasant, polite, sociable, urbane, warm, clubby |
| Antonyms: | complaining, disdainful, grouchy, grumbling, impolite, miserable, reserved, surly, unfriendly |
| Main Entry: | amiable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | friendly, agreeable |
| Synonyms: | affable, amicable, attractive, benign, breezy, charming, cheerful, complaisant, cool*, cordial, cozy, delightful, easy, engaging, friendly, genial, good-humored, good-natured, gracious, kind, kindly, lenient, lovable, mellow, mild, obliging, palsy-walsy*, pleasant, pleasing, princely*, responsive, right, righteous, sociable, swell*, tight*, warm, warmhearted, winning, buddy-buddy*, clubby, copacetic, downright neighborly, home cooking, pussycat, sweet-tempered |
| Notes: | amicable implies being well disposed; amiable is acting well disposed and amiable is commonly applied only to people - though sometimes it is used for occasions, while amicable is not applied to people at all but to human interactions and their outcomes; amiable first meant 'kind' or 'lovely, lovable' and amicable first applied to things and meant 'pleasant, benign' |
| Antonyms: | crabby, disagreeable, gloomy, hateful, irritable, mean, quarrelsome, rude, surly, testy, unfriendly |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | complaisant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | agreeable |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, amiable, compliant, conciliatory, deferential, easy, friendly, generous, good-humored, good-natured, indulgent, lenient, mild, obliging, polite, solicitous, submissive, easy-going, good-tempered |
| Antonyms: | antagonistic, disagreeable, discontented, dissatisfied, obstinate |
| Main Entry: | docile |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compliant, submissive |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, adaptable, agreeable, amenable, childlike, complacent, cool, ductile, easy, easygoing, gentle, governable, humble, laid-back, manageable, meek, mellow, mild, obedient, obliging, orderly, pliable, pliant, quiet, resigned, soft, tame, teachable, tractable, usable, well-behaved, willing, yielding, acquiescent, biddable, docious, easily influenced, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | determined, headstrong, inflexible, intractable, obstinate, opinionated, stubborn, uncooperative, unyielding |
| Main Entry: | easygoing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | complacent, permissive |
| Synonyms: | amenable, breezy, calm, carefree, casual, collected, complaisant, composed, devil-may-care*, even-tempered*, flexible, free and easy, happy-go-lucky*, indolent, indulgent, informal, insouciant, laid-back*, lazy, lenient, liberal, mild, moderate, nonchalant, offhand, patient, placid, self-possessed, serene, tolerant, tranquil, unconcerned, uncritical, unhurried, uninhibited, hang-loose, low-pressure, outgiving, poised, relaxed, undemanding |
| Antonyms: | agitated, critical, demanding, hurried, intolerant, nervous, strict, upset, worried, hyped |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | forbearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tolerant |
| Synonyms: | charitable, clement, considerate, easy, forgiving, gentle, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, lenient, long-suffering, merciful, mild, moderate, patient, thoughtful, being big, going easy on, going easy with, living with, longanimous, soft-shell |
| Antonyms: | impatient, intolerant, merciless, strict, uncontrolled |
| Main Entry: | good-humored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | funny, happy |
| Synonyms: | affable, amiable, buoyant, cheerful, cheery, complaisant, congenial, easy, genial, good-natured, lenient, merry, mild, obliging, pleasant, good-tempered, smiling |
| Antonyms: | morose, sad, unhappy, ill-humored, unfunny |
| Main Entry: | good-natured |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | easygoing, easily pleased |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, altruistic, amiable, benevolent, bighearted, breezy, charitable, complaisant, compliant, cordial, easy, even-tempered, friendly, good-humored, gracious, helpful, kind, kindly, lenient, mild, moderate, nice, obliging, tolerant, warmhearted, acquiescent, good-hearted, marshmallow, softie, well-disposed, willing to please |
| Antonyms: | bad, mean |
| Main Entry: | gracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, giving |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, affable, amiable, amicable, approachable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, big-hearted, bland, charitable, chivalrous, civil, compassionate, complaisant, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, courtly, easy, forthcoming, friendly, gallant, genial, good-natured, hospitable, indulgent, lenient, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, pleasing, polite, sociable, stately, suave, tender, unctuous, urbane, well-mannered, benignant, bonhomous, good-hearted |
| Antonyms: | discourteous, hateful, mean, nasty, rude, sarcastic, severe, ungracious, unkind, vulgar, ungiving |
| Main Entry: | humane |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, compassionate |
| Synonyms: | accommodating, altruistic, amiable, approachable, benevolent, benign, broad-minded, charitable, clement, considerate, cordial, democratic, forbearing, forgiving, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, helpful, human, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, liberal, magnanimous, merciful, mild, natural, obliging, open-minded, philanthropic, righteous, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, unselfish, warmhearted, benignant, pitying |
| Antonyms: | cruel, fierce, merciless, uncivilized, unkind, unsympathetic, violent, inhumane, uncompassionate |
| Main Entry: | indulgent |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | lenient, giving |
| Synonyms: | big*, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, considerate, easy, easygoing, favorable, fond, forbearing, gentle, gratifying, kind, kindly, liberal, merciful, mild, permissive, tender, tolerant, understanding, able to live with, going along with, going easy on, overpermissive, soft-shelled |
| Antonyms: | moderate, strict, abstaining, moderating, tempering |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inoffensive |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | not obnoxious; harmless |
| Synonyms: | calm, clean, friendly, humble, innocent, innocuous, mild, neutral, peaceable, pleasant, quiet, retiring, safe, unobtrusive, innoxious, nonprovocative, unobjectionable, unoffending |
| Antonyms: | damaging, harmful, malicious, offensive, provocative |
| Main Entry: | kind |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | generous, good |
| Synonyms: | affectionate, altruistic, amiable, amicable, beneficent, benevolent, benign, big, charitable, clement, compassionate, congenial, considerate, cordial, courteous, eleemosynary, friendly, gentle, gracious, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, loving, mild, neighborly, obliging, philanthropic, propitious, soft touch, softhearted, sympathetic, tenderhearted, thoughtful, tolerant, understanding, all heart, bleeding-heart, bounteous, good-hearted, heart in right place |
| Antonyms: | bad, bitter, cruel, inconsiderate, mean, unfriendly, ungenerous, unkind |
| Main Entry: | kindly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | compassionate, helpful |
| Synonyms: | attentive, beneficial, benevolent, benign, cool, cordial, favorable, friendly, generous, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, gracious, hearty, humane, kind, kindhearted, mellow, merciful, mild, neighborly, pleasant, polite, sociable, sympathetic, thoughtful, warm, benignant, good-hearted |
| Antonyms: | disagreeable, inconsiderate, unsympathetic, unkindly |
| Main Entry: | lenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | permissive |
| Synonyms: | amiable, benign, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, good-natured, indulgent, kind, kindly, loving, merciful, mild, obliging, permitting, soft, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tolerant, yielding, allowing, assuaging, assuasive, being big, benignant, excusing, favoring, going easy on, humoring, letting, live with, mollycoddling, pampering, pardoning, soft-shell, spoiling |
| Antonyms: | hard, intolerant, restrictive, rigorous, severe, limiting |
| Main Entry: | lowly |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inferior, plain |
| Synonyms: | average, base, common, commonplace, docile, dutiful, everyday, gentle, humble, ignoble, low, mean, meek, menial, mild, modest, mundane, obscure, obsequious, ordinary, plebeian, poor, prosaic, retiring, servile, simple, submissive, subordinate, unassuming, unpretentious, baseborn, cast down, lowborn, proletarian, reverential, withdrawing |
| Antonyms: | higher, lofty, noble, pretentious, superior |
| Main Entry: | meek |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | shy; compliant |
| Synonyms: | deferential, docile, forbearing, gentle, humble, lenient, long-suffering, lowly, manageable, mild, modest, nothing, orderly, pabulum*, passive, patient, peaceful, plain, resigned, serene, soft, spineless, spiritless, subdued, submissive, tame, timid, tolerant, unassuming, unpretentious, weak, wishy-washy*, yielding, zero*, acquiescent, longanimous, milquetoast, unresisting, weak-kneed |
| Antonyms: | bold, brave, immodest, impertinent, uninhibited, emboldened |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | merciful |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | kind, sparing |
| Synonyms: | beneficent, benign, bleeding heart*, charitable, clement, compassionate, condoning, easygoing, feeling, forbearing, forgiving, generous, gentle, gracious, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindly, lenient, liberal, mild, pitiful, soft*, softhearted*, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, all heart, benignant, heart in right place, pardoning, pitying |
| Antonyms: | cruel, merciless, unforgiving, unkind, unmerciful |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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