merciful
adjective
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 adjective
showing or giving mercy
sought merciful treatment for the captives
Related & opposite
- clement also see
- compassionate also see
- soft also see
- humane also see
- kind also see
- merciless antonym
- mercy derivation
- mercifulness derivation
Sense 2 adjective
(used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious
our merciful king
Related & opposite
- mercifulness derivation
- gracious similar to
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | clement |
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | compassionate |
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | soft |
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | humane |
| 1 | also see | Related & opposite | kind |
| 1 | antonym | Related & opposite | merciless |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mercy |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | mercifulness |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | mercifulness |
| 2 | similar to | Related & opposite | gracious |