Word Meanings - FORGIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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,

Additional info about word: 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, And to great ones such folly do forgive. Spenser. 2. To give up resentment or claim to requital on account of (an offense or wrong); to remit the penalty of; to pardon; -- said in reference to the act forgiven. And their sins should be forgiven them. Mark iv. 12. He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them. Macaulay. 3. To cease to feel resentment against, on account of wrong committed; to give up claim to requital from or retribution upon (an offender); to absolve; to pardon; -- said of the person offending. Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do. Luke xxiii. 34. I as free forgive you, as I would be fforgiven. Shak. Note: Sometimes both the person and the offense follow as objects of the verb, sometimes one and sometimes the other being the indirect object. "Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors." Matt. vi. 12. "Be of good cheer; thy sins be forgiven thee." Matt. ix. 2. Syn. -- See excuse.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of FORGIVE)

• Absolve
• Acquit
• release
• exonerate
• liberate
• exempt
• discharge
• exculpate
• pardon
• forgive
• free
• clear
• Excuse
• Exculpate
• absolve
• overlook
• condone
• i emit
• indulge
• justify
• vindicate
• defend
• acquit
• mitigate
• extenuate
• Overlook
• Condone
• connive
• disregard
• oversee
• supervise
• inspect
• survey
• review
• excuse
• neglect
• Pardon
• Forgive
• remit
• Remit
• Relax
• forego
• discontinue
• surrender
• resign

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of FORGIVE)

• Consider
• respect
• notice
• observe
• regard
• esteem
• tend
• attend
• foster
• study
• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke
• Discard
• dismiss
• overlook
• skim
• disregard
• misexamine

Related words: (words related to FORGIVE)

• DISREGARDFULLY
  Negligently; heedlessly.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• EXCUSEMENT
  Excuse. Gower.
• RESIGNATION
  1. The act of resigning or giving up, as a claim, possession, office, or the like; surrender; as, the resignation of a crown or comission. 2. The state of being resigned or submissive; quiet or patient submission; unresisting acquiescence; as,
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• CONSIDERINGLY
  With consideration or deliberation.
• RELAXANT
  A medicine that relaxes; a laxative.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• REMIT
  1. To abate in force or in violence; to grow less intense; to become moderated; to abate; to relax; as, a fever remits; the severity of the weather remits. 2. To send money, as in payment. Addison.
• REVIEW
  Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• INSPECTOR
  One who inspects, views, or oversees; one to whom the supervision of any work is committed; one who makes an official view or examination, as a military or civil officer; a superintendent; a supervisor; an overseer. Inspector general , a staff
• RESPECT
  An expression of respect of deference; regards; as, to send one's respects to another. 4. Reputation; repute. Many of the best respect in Rome. Shak. 5. Relation; reference; regard. They believed but one Supreme Deity, which, with respect to the
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• NOTICE
  1. The act of noting, remarking, or observing; observation by the senses or intellect; cognizance; note. How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons ! I. Watts. 2. Intelligence, by whatever means communicated; knowledge
• STUDY
  1. To apply the mind to; to read and examine for the purpose of learning and understanding; as, to study law or theology; to study languages. 2. To consider attentively; to examine closely; as, to study the work of nature. Study thyself; what rank
• RELAXATIVE
  Having the quality of relaxing; laxative. -- n.
• RESIGNED
  Submissive; yielding; not disposed to resist or murmur. A firm, yet cautious mind; Sincere, thought prudent; constant, yet resigned. Pope.
• RESPECTER
  One who respects. A respecter of persons, one who regards or judges with partiality. Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. Acts x.
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• SUPREMITY
  Supremacy. Fuller.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• DISRESPECTABILITY
  Want of respectability. Thackeray.
• UNCONSIDERED
  Not considered or attended to; not regarded; inconsiderable; trifling. A snapper-up of unconsidered trifles. Shak.
• EREMITE
  A hermit. Thou art my heaven, and I thy eremite. Keats.
• MISOBSERVE
  To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing. Locke.