Antonym: cruel, merciless, pitiless. Similar words: fanciful, commercial, mercilessly, commercialize, commercial bank, pitiful, exercise, coercion. Meaning: ['mɜrsɪfʊl /'mɜː] 
adj. 1. showing or giving mercy 2. (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious.
adj. 1. showing or giving mercy 2. (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious. 
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1) He was accounted a merciful man.
2) We can only hope the court is merciful.
3) I think my uncle's death was a merciful release for my poor aunt.
4) Eventually the session came to a merciful end.
5) The merciful king saved the young officers from death.
6) The merciful king saved him from death.
7) Death came as a merciful release.
8) I think her death was a merciful release.
9) "God is merciful,[http://sentencedict.com/merciful.html] " said the priest.
10) They asked her to be merciful to the prisoners.
11) She was merciful to the prisoners.
12) Merciful God, save us.
13) Who am I to be merciful?
14) Death had been a merciful release for him.
15) These were the alternatives to a quick, merciful death.
16) Those animals put down had a merciful release.
17) A merciful amnesia usually came with these comas and who could deny it was a blessing?
18) Le Bon Seigneur had been merciful to the Grand Duke and accorded him a fine day.
19) No merciful sudden death for that poor romantic young fool, he thought grimly.
20) The gods could, up to a point, be merciful; but it was fate that was all-powerful.
21) Tables of the Merciful are also set up across the country by the armed forces, businesses and belly dancers.
22) The prisoner besought the judge for mercy / to be merciful.
23) After years of suffering, his death came as a merciful release.
24) After such a long illness, her death came as a merciful release.
25) And Elinor was just going to have to wait for her merciful release.
26) With the Giants leading 28-7, half-time came as a merciful relief.
27) A superb rum punch had all the characteristics of merciful execution.
28) But the reality is, ladies and gentlemen, I am being merciful.
29) He was the perfect choice for Emperor -- just, patient, merciful and of royal blood.
30) While he was still fumbling four more of the shrieks blasted out of the ether; then there was a merciful silence.
More similar words: fanciful, commercial, mercilessly, commercialize, commercial bank, pitiful, exercise, coercion, piercing, beautiful, bountiful, pitifully, dutifully, plentiful, intercity, supercilious, plentifully, mercy, commerce, merchant, mercantile, mercenary, mercurial, summer camp, merchandise, mercantilism, at the mercy of, interstate commerce, mercalli scale, bifurcate.