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being big
adjective as in compassionate
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adjective as in forbearing
adjective as in lenient
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- allowing
- amiable
- assuaging
- assuasive
- benignant
- charitable
- clement
- complaisant
- condoning
- easy
- easygoing
- emollient
- excusing
- favoring
- forbearing
- gentle
- going easy on
- good-natured
- humoring
- kind
- kindly
- letting
- live with
- loving
- merciful
- mild
- mollycoddling
- obliging
- pampering
- pardoning
- permitting
- soft
- soft-shell
- softhearted
- sparing
- spoiling
- tender
- yielding
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Example Sentences
That really just came out of Adam and his buddies being big fans of Death Cab and turning me on to them.
This is the ancient virtue of being big-hearted (literally, the large-souled person).
Being big and powerful is essential to our national identity.
Tunku Varadarajan on how being big went from a sign of bounty to excess.
"About a man being big and prominent, and all that, you know," floundered young Nisbet.
I can recall to mind that the company assembled numbered about fifty, the room being big enough to hold three hundred.
He was not beautiful, but very impressive; being big, without a white hair on him.
My father, he 'prenticed me to a blacksmith, being big and strong for my years; but I hadn't no heart for the work.
And she began to like him, too; for he was the sort to win women's hearts, being big and boyish and full of merriment.
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On this page you'll find 130 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to being big, such as: benevolent, charitable, humane, merciful, sympathetic, and warm.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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