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Merciful Moderate

Merciful has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Adjective
1

showing or giving mercy

"sought merciful treatment for the captives"

"a merciful god"

2

(used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious

"our merciful king"

3

Showing mercy.

Example Sentences
"sought merciful treatment for the captives" adjective
"a merciful god" adjective
"our merciful king" adjective
See Also
humane compassionate clement kind soft mercy unrelenting mercifully
Related Terms
Antonyms
unmerciful
Rhyming Words
awful woful urnful earful endful woeful cupful hueful dueful manful jugful aimful wilful aidful useful canful binful busful armful owlful
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