mercifully

Adverb

Meaning

in a compassionate manner

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Synonyms

fortunately luckily christianly easily gently happily kindly mildly affectionately compassionate merciful softly graciously sympathetically tenderly
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Antonyms

unfortunately hard roughly ill badly hardly
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Examples

he dealt with the thief mercifully Source: Internet

From the mercifully well-proportioned nostrils of the grille bracketed by pop-up headlamps to its open greenhouse and rear-end dominating tail lamps, the E31 is a distinctive shape. Source: Internet

Hence the AFL has (mercifully) cut the draft back to a one-night affair. Source: Internet

Ironically, and mercifully therefore, the process by which Anglophone Africans finally re-asserted their humanity turned out to be far less psychologically traumatic than that by which francophone Africa came to its own ultimate self-realization. Source: Internet

Black Out These thick Perspex frames will mercifully conceal the night before. Source: Internet

Despite these seemingly insurmountable obstacles, the team remained cohesive, congenial, and mercifully alive - a fact that speaks not just to luck but to an unparalleled feat of leadership. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

merciful escape merciful person mercifull mercifulness mercify merciless