mercifuladjective
uk/ˈmɜː.sɪ.fəl/us/ˈmɝː.sɪ.fəl/approvingmerciful adjective (PERSON)
C2 someone who is merciful is willing to be kind to and forgive people who are in their power:
"God is merciful," said the priest.
a merciful ruler
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Lenient & merciful
- charitable
- charitably
- charity
- clemency
- ease
- ease up/off
- easy
- go easy idiom
- have a heart! idiom
- heart
- lenient
- magnanimous
- mercy
- quarter
merciful adjective (EVENT/SITUATION)
used to say that you are grateful for an event or situation because it stops something unpleasant:
After such a long illness, her death came as a merciful release.
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Good luck and bad luck
- a blessing in disguise idiom
- bad/hard/tough luck! idiom
- be a good idiom
- be bad luck on sb idiom
- be down on your luck idiom
- blessing
- favour
- godsend
- grace
- hapless
- happenstance
- happily
- lap
- mischance
- misfortune
- mishap
- mixed blessing
- Murphy's law
- shame
- stroke
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mercifully
adverb uk/ˈmɜː.sɪ.fəl.i/us/ˈmɝː.sɪ.fəl.i/approving
His suffering was mercifully brief.