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Definition of merciful:

Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.
Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.

Synonyms:

benign, sympathetic, compassionate, tender-hearted, understanding, kindly, uplifting, tender, feeling, cheerful, good, thoughtful, soft, attitude, pleasing, humane, indulgent, pitying, accept, pitiful, cruel, pitiless, gentle, satisfying, joyous, heartwarming, gracious, charitable, clement, joyful, kind-hearted, benevolent, easy, human, forbearing, magnanimous, sparing, mild, exhilarating, life-affirming, lax, kind, humanitarian, benignant, lenient.

forgiving (part of speech: adjective)

Usage examples:

You are a merciful one- the only merciful one, so far as I know- among men.

- "Blind Love", Wilkie Collins.
They now said he had been guided by a strange but merciful Providence to his old home.

- "Looking Seaward Again", Walter Runciman.
I don't know just what Ozma will do to you, because this is the first time one of us has broken a Law; but you may be sure she will be just and merciful.

- "The Patchwork Girl of Oz", L. Frank Baum.