Classes
Sentient and Moral Powers
Sympathetic Affections
Retrospective Sympathetic Affections
Retrospective Sympathetic Affections
Nouns
gratitude, thankfulness, feeling of obligation, sense of obligation. acknowledgment, recognition, thanksgiving, thanksgiving, giving thanks
thankful good will. thanks, praise, benediction
paean
grace, grace before meat, grace after meat, grace before meals, grace after meals
thank offering. requital.
Verbs
be grateful etc. adj.
thank
give thanks, render thanks, return thanks, offer thanks, tender thanks etc. n.
acknowledge, requite. feel under an obligation, be under an obligation, lie under an obligation
not look a gift horse in the mouth
never forget, overflow with gratitude
thank one's stars, thank one's lucky stars, bless one's stars
fall on one's knees.
Adjectives
grateful, thankful, obliged, beholden, indebted to, under obligation.
Int
thanks!, many thanks!, gramercy! , much obliged!, thank you!, thank you very much!, thanks a lot!, thanks a heap, thanks loads [Coll.]
thank Heaven!, Heaven be praised!
Nouns
ingratitude, thanklessness, oblivion of benefits, unthankfulness. benefits forgot
" thankless task, thankless office.
Verbs
be ungrateful etc. adj.
forget benefits
look a gift horse in the mouth.
Adjectives
ungrateful, unmindful, unthankful
thankless, ingrate, wanting in gratitude, insensible of benefits. forgotten
unacknowledged, unthanked, unrequited, unrewarded
ill-requited.
Int
thank you for nothing!, thanks for nothing!, et tu Brute! " [Julius Caesar] .
Phrases
ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend" [Lear] .
Nouns
forgiveness, pardon, condonation, grace, remission, absolution, amnesty, oblivion
indulgence
reprieve. conciliation
reconcilement
reconciliation etc. (pacification) Pacification
propitiation. excuse, exoneration, quittance, release, indemnity
bill of indemnity, act of indemnity, covenant of indemnity, deed of indemnity
exculpation etc. (acquittal) Acquittal . longanimity, placability
forbearance.
Verbs
forgive, forgive and forget
pardon, condone, think no more of, let bygones be bygones, shake hands
forget an injury. excuse, pass over, overlook
wink at etc. (neglect) Neglect
bear with
allow for, make allowances for
let one down easily, not be too hard upon, pocket the affront. let off, remit, absolve, give absolution, reprieve
acquit etc. Acquittal . beg pardon, ask pardon, implore pardon etc. n.
conciliate, propitiate, placate
make up a quarrel etc. (pacify) Pacification
let the wound heal.
Adjectives
forgiving, placable, conciliatory, forgiven etc. v.
unresented, unavenged, unrevenged.
Phrases
more in sorrow than in anger
the offender never pardons" [Herbert] .
Nouns
revenge, revengement
vengeance
avengement, avengeance, sweet revenge, vendetta, death feud, blood for blood retaliation etc. Retaliation
day of reckoning. rancor, vindictiveness, implacability
malevolence etc. Malevolence
ruthlessness etc. Existence 4-pity">Pity.1. avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides.
Verbs
revenge, avenge
vindicate
take one's revenge, have one's revenge
breathe revenge, breathe vengeance
wreak one's vengeance, wreak one's anger. have accounts to settle, have a crow to pluck, have a bone to pick, have a rod in pickle. keep the wound green
harbor revenge, harbor vindictive feeling
bear malice
rankle, rankle in the breast.
Adjectives
revengeful, vengeful
vindictive, rancorous
pitiless etc. Existence 4-pity">Pity.1
ruthless, rigorous, avenging. unforgiving, unrelenting
inexorable, stony-hearted, implacable
relentless
rankling
immitigable.
Phrases
in high vengeance there is noble scorn" [G. Eliot]
malevolus animus abditos dentes habet [Syrus]
now infidel I have thee on the hip" [Merchant of Venice] .
Nouns
jealousy, jealousness
jaundiced eye
envious suspicion, suspicion
green-eyed monster" [Othello]
yellows
Juno.
Verbs
be jealous etc. adj.
view with jealousy, view with a jealous eye.
Adjectives
jealous, jealous as a barbary pigeon
jaundiced, yellow-eyed, envious, hornmad.
Nouns
envy
enviousness etc. adj.
rivalry
illwill, spite.
Verbs
envy, covet, burst with envy.
Adjectives
envious, invidious, covetous
Phrases
base envy withers at another's joy" [Thomson]