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UK
/fəɡˈɪvɪŋ/
]
[ US /fɝˈɡɪvɪŋ, fɔɹˈɡɪvɪŋ/ ]
[ US /fɝˈɡɪvɪŋ, fɔɹˈɡɪvɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- providing absolution
-
inclined or able to forgive and show mercy
a kindly forgiving nature
a forgiving embrace to the naughty child
How To Use forgiving In A Sentence
- With a bit of luck, this will finally spell the end of those unforgiving hipster trousers.
- He was an unforgiving man who never forgot a slight.
- They are more forgiving if the temperature's not perfect.
- Football can be a cruel business and the Premiership is one of the most merciless and unforgiving of all leagues.
- Forgiving someone who has wronged us is like canceling a debt.
- All day the eye of the sky bulges, lidless and forgiving until darkness comes to roost undisturbed in its lashes.
- Alaska showed itself to be wild, rugged, unforgiving - yet at the same time alluring and welcoming.
- For $3.7 million, you, too, can sit in this singular creation, gaze out at the magnificent sunsets, watch eagles wheel against the bright blue empyrean, pit yourself against the bellowing 74-mile-an-hour winds, the arctic snows, the unforgiving landscape. Undone by a house of dreams
- Its unforgiving tip dimples the skin of his chest.
- But because they contain instructions for a computer's processor, executable files are less forgiving of tampering.