soft shell

Main Entry:
compassionate [adj. kuhm-pash-uh-nit; v. kuhm-pash-uh-neyt]
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: having tender feelings
Synonyms: all heart, being big, benevolent, bleeding heart, charitable, commiserative, forbearing, going easy on, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, living with, merciful, old softie, piteous, pitying, responsive, soft shell, softhearted, sparing, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding, warm, warmhearted
Antonyms: cruel, hard, harsh, hateful, indifferent, mean, merciless, tyrannous
Main Entry: suppositious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: counterfeit
Synonyms: Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent*, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz*, fake*, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, put-on, queer, sham*, snide, soft shell, spurious, supposititious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong
Notes: suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus'
Main Entry: supposititious
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: counterfeit
Synonyms: Hollywood, affected, assumed, bent*, bogus*, brummagem, copied, crock, deceptive, delusive, delusory, ersatz*, fake*, faked, false, feigned, fictitious, fishy, forged, framed, fraudulent, imitation, misleading, mock, not genuine, not kosher, phony*, pirate, plant*, pretended, pretentious, pseudo*, put-on, queer, sham*, snide, soft shell, spurious, suppositious, two-faced, won't fly, wrong
Notes: suppositious means 'supposed, assumed, hypothetical'; supposititious means 'spurious, phony, bogus'
Main Entry: forbearing
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: tolerant
Synonyms: being big, charitable, clement, considerate, easy, forgiving, gentle, going easy on, going easy with, humane, humanitarian, indulgent, lenient, living with, long-suffering, longanimous, merciful, mild, moderate, patient, soft-shell, thoughtful
Antonyms: impatient, intolerant, merciless, strict, uncontrolled
Main Entry: lenient
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: permissive
Synonyms: allowing, amiable, assuaging, assuasive, being big, benign, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, complaisant, compliant, condoning, easy, easygoing, emollient, excusing, favoring, forbearing, forgiving, gentle, going easy on, good-natured, humoring, indulgent, kind, kindly, letting, live with, loving, merciful, mild, mollycoddling, obliging, pampering, pardoning, permitting, soft, soft-shell, softhearted, sparing, spoiling, sympathetic, tender, tolerant, yielding
Antonyms: hard, intolerant, limiting, restrictive, rigorous, severe
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