Synonyms for forgiving
- adjective
Most common
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Exonerative
2. Merciful
merciful, tolerant, lenient, compassionate, kind, indulgent, humane, charitable, forbearing, clement
Other
Definitions
- adj. 1
Inclined to forgive.
I am inclined to take a forgiving attitude, since this is his first offence.
- adj. 2
User-friendly, such that harmful mistakes are not easily made.
Related words
- Word family
- forgivingness
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Forgive has reference to feelings, pardon to consequences; hence, the executive may pardon, but has nothing to do officially with forgiving. A person may speak of excusing or forgiving himself, but not of pardoning himself.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- tolerant His parents are tolerant of his self-indulgence.
- merciful In the name of God, Most Gracious, Most Merciful.
By length
- 4 letters
- kind1
- 6 letters
- humane2
- 7 letters
- clement2, lenient3
- 8 letters
- tolerant3, merciful3, placable
- 9 letters
- indulgent3
- 10 letters
- charitable4, forbearing
- 11 letters
- exonerative, absolvitory
- 13 letters
- compassionate4
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (humane2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- clément