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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | generosity, gift |
| Synonyms: | alms, alms-giving, assistance, benefaction, beneficence, contribution, dole, donation, endowment, fund, gifting, hand*, hand-out, helping hand, largesse, oblation, offering, philanthropy, relief, write-off |
| Antonyms: | stealing, taking |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | aid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | help, support |
| Synonyms: | advancement, advice, advocacy, alleviation, allowance, assist, assistance, attention, backing, backup, benefaction, benefit, benevolence, bounty, care, charity, comfort, compensation, cooperation, deliverance, encouragement, endowment, favor, furtherance, gift, giving, guidance, hand, handout, leg up, lift, ministration, ministry, patronage, promotion, reinforcement, relief, rescue, reward, salvation, service, shot in the arm, subsidy, sustenance, treatment |
| Notes: | aid is assistance or a source of assistance; aide is an assistant |
| Antonyms: | blockage, hindrance, impediment, injury, obstruction |
| Main Entry: | alms |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | handout |
| Synonyms: | aid, assistance, benefaction, charity, contribution, dole, donation, offering |
| Main Entry: | altruism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unselfish concern |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, humanitarianism, kindness, magnanimity, philanthropy, public spirit, selflessness, social conscience |
| Main Entry: | amenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pleasing, agreeable behavior |
| Synonyms: | affability, agreeableness, amiability, attention, attractiveness, charity, charm, complaisance, cordiality, courtesy, delightfulness, enjoyableness, etiquette, gallantry, geniality, gentility, gratefulness, kindness, mildness, pleasantness, politeness, refinement, suavity, sweetness |
| Antonyms: | disruption, misbehavior |
| Main Entry: | clemency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | caritas, charity, compassion, endurance, equitableness, fairness, forbearance, gentleness, grace, humanity, indulgence, justness, kindness, lenience, leniency, lenity, lifesaver, mercifulness, mercy, mildness, moderation, soft-heartedness, sufferance, tenderness, tolerance, toleration |
| Antonyms: | no mercy |
| Main Entry: | compassion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tender feeling |
| Synonyms: | benevolence, charity, clemency, commiseration, compunction, condolence, consideration, empathy, fellow feeling, grace, heart, humaneness, humanity, kindness, lenity, mercy, softheartedness, softness, sorrow, sympathy, tenderheartedness, tenderness, yearning |
| Antonyms: | cruelty, harshness, hatred, indifference, meanness, mercilessness, tyranny |
| Main Entry: | contribution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gift, offering |
| Synonyms: | a hand, addition, alms, augmentation, benefaction, beneficence, bestowal, charity, do one's part, donation, gifting, grant, handout, helping hand, improvement, increase, input, present, significant addition, subscription, supplement, write-off |
| Main Entry: | courtesy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favor, indulgence |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, benevolence, bounty, charity, chivalry, compassion, consent, consideration, dispensation, generosity, kindness, liberality, service, unselfishness |
| Antonyms: | discourtesy, disfavor, disregard |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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