1 ready to forgive people and show them kindness:
a merciful God * They asked her to be merciful to the prisoners.
2 (of an event) seeming to be lucky, especially because it brings an end to sb's problems or suffering:
Death came as a merciful release.
seealsoMERCY
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for merciful is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is merciful a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, merciful is tagged as adjective.
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