| Main Entry: | compassionate |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | having tender feelings |
Synonyms: |
all heart, being big, benevolent, bleeding heart, charitable, commiserative, forbearing, going easy on, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, living with, merciful, old softie, piteous, pitying, responsive, soft shell, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted |
Antonyms: |
cruel, hard, harsh, hateful, indifferent, mean, merciless, tyrannous |
| Main Entry: | counterfeit |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | fake, simulated |
Synonyms: |
Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo, put-on, queer, sham, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |
Antonyms: |
genuine, real, true |
| Main Entry: | forbearing |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tolerant |
Synonyms: |
being big, charitable, clement, considerate, easy, forgiving, gentle, going easy on, going easy with, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, lenient, living with, long-suffering, longanimous, merciful, mild, moderate, patient, soft-shell, thoughtful |
Antonyms: |
impatient, intolerant, merciless, strict, uncontrolled |
| Main Entry: | lenient |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | permissive |
Synonyms: |
allowing, amiable, assuaging, assuasive, being big, benign, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, excusing, favoring, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, going easy on, good-natured, humoring, indulgent, kind, kindly, letting, live with, loving, merciful, mild, mollycoddling, obliging, pampering, pardoning, permitting, soft, soft-shell, softhearted, sparing, spoiling, sympathetic, tender, tolerant, yielding |
Antonyms: |
hard, intolerant, limiting, restrictive, rigorous, severe |
| Main Entry: | suppositious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
Synonyms: |
Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent*, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz*, fake*, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, put-on, queer, sham*, snide, soft shell, spurious, supposititious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |
| Notes: | suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus' |
| Main Entry: | supposititious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | counterfeit |
Synonyms: |
Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent*, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz*, fake*, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, put-on, queer, sham*, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong |