Word Meanings - FORGIVING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORGIVING)

• Charitable
• Kind
• benign
• benevolent
• beneficent
• liberal
• considerate
• forgiving
• compassionate
• placable
• inexacting
• inextreme
• Reconcilable
• Congruous
• harmonious
• compatible
• consistent

Related words: (words related to FORGIVING)

• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• CONSISTENTLY
  In a consistent manner.
• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• CHARITABLENESS
  The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
• BENEVOLENT
  Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent.
• BENEFICENTLY
  In a beneficent manner; with beneficence.
• FORGIVER
  One who forgives. Johnson.
• LIBERALISTIC
  Pertaining to, or characterized by, liberalism; as, liberalistic opinions.
• FORGIVING
  Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp.
• COMPATIBLE
  Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome. Syn. -- Consistent; suitable; agreeable; accordant.
• RECONCILABLE
  Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts. The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable. Arbuthnot. -- Rec"on*ci`la*ble*ness, n. -- Rec"on*ci`la*bly, adv.
• PLACABLENESS
  The quality of being placable.
• BENIGNLY
  In a benign manner.
• FORGIVE
  forgifan; perh. for- + giefan, gifan to give; cf. D. vergeven, G. vergeben, Icel. fyrirgefa, Sw. f, Goth. fragiban to give, grant. See 1. To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave,
• LIBERALIZATION
  The act of liberalizing.
• FORGIVENESS
  1. The act of forgiving; the state of being forgiven; as, the forgiveness of sin or of injuries. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses. Dan. ix. 9. In whom we have . . . the forgiveness of sin. Eph. i. 7. 2. Disposition to pardon;
• CONSISTENT
  1. Possessing firmness or fixedness; firm; hard; solid. The humoral and consistent parts of the body. Harvey. 2. Having agreement with itself or with something else; having harmony among its parts; possesing unity; accordant; harmonious; congruous;
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• UNHARMONIOUS
  Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv.
• ILLIBERALNESS
  The state of being illiberal; illiberality.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• INCONSISTENTLY
  In an inconsistent manner.
• UNCONSIDERATE
  Inconsiderate; heedless; careless. Daniel. -- Un`con*sid"er*ate*ness, n. Hales.
• INCONSIDERATE
  1. Not considerate; not attentive to safety or to propriety; not regarding the rights or feelings of others; hasty; careless; thoughtless; heedless; as, the young are generally inconsiderate; inconsiderate conduct. It is a very unhappy token of