Hyphenation of merciful

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word merciful? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

mer-ci-ful

Definitions of merciful:

1.	Showing or giving mercy Sought merciful treatment for the captives A merciful god
2.	(used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious Our merciful king

Synonyms of merciful:

adj	merciful, compassionate, clement, compassionate, humane, kind, soft
adj	kind, humane
adj	gracious

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.