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单词 forgiving
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Definition of forgiving in English:

forgiving

adjective fəˈɡɪvɪŋfərˈɡɪvɪŋ
  • 1Ready and willing to forgive.

    宽大的,慈悲的

    Taylor was in a forgiving mood

    泰勒有意原谅。

    Perry is surprisingly forgiving of his stepfather
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Now investors are feeling the pain and in a less forgiving mood when it comes to executive excess or wrongdoing.
    • Now, I don't entirely agree with his position but it also seems we are not very forgiving of critical perspectives on scientific and technological innovation.
    • Business leaders, at least, seem in a forgiving mood.
    • It's been suggested that having terminal cancer has made me more forgiving and magnanimous, since death is approaching at considerable speed.
    • Americans are a forgiving people, a compassionate people, a people who are always ready to give a guy a second chance.
    • But as I have said earlier, the audience can be very forgiving (and sometimes inanely lauding) if the director is very giving.
    • On reflection, we usually saw the wisdom of her more forgiving approach and learned that working cooperatively achieved more in the long run and certainly made life much more pleasant.
    • I can't be sensitive and forgiving and compassionate 24 hours a day.
    • He sat there with his head down, obviously out of shame, and I can understand that, but we are a forgiving bunch on this side of the Chamber.
    • The poor fools, they don't know what they are doing, he concluded, and he was able to establish a forgiving and understanding state of being.
    • Our attempts at being nonjudgemental, forgiving and compassionate are feeble.
    • Richard, the upright and forgiving friend from whom Danny has grown apart over the years, hands him the story, offering him a lifeline from the past and rekindling a friendship for the future.
    • It was lengthy and involved and I could see no one was in a forgiving mood.
    • It was just bad luck for him that I wasn't in a forgiving mood.
    • She was usually such an easy-going and forgiving kid; it just wasn't like her to be so stubborn.
    • Throughout the cast, a peculiar kind of professionalism characterised a collection of poor performances which managed to be bad without ever having even a bit of forgiving personality.
    • She is the Eternal Feminine, forgiving and compassionate and able to reconcile terrorist and victim with her abounding sweetness.
    • And yet every tale is delivered with a forgiving chuckle, every outrage defused by the affectionate admiration that Davis couldn't help inspiring in his victims.
    • This is the second time my bike has been stolen so I'm not in a forgiving mood now.
    • Jacobs has a shrewd, if forgiving eye and, given his background as son of a poor black southern bar-owner, an endearing sense of the absurdity of the world he found himself in.
    Synonyms
    merciful, lenient, compassionate, pitying, magnanimous, humane, clement, mild, soft-hearted, forbearing, tolerant, easy-going, indulgent, accommodating, understanding, placable
    1. 1.1 (of a thing) easy or safe to deal with.
      (物件)易于摆弄的,安全的
      snow is a forgiving surface on which to fall

      在雪地上跌倒没有什么危险。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Even when you hit a bum chord the guitar can make a lovely sound, which means it is a far more forgiving instrument than the descant recorder I played in Primary 5.
      • There is a forgiving, arcade-style quality to the ride, as well as a helpful cornering aid, with arrows turning green once you have slowed to the optimum speed.
      • Many of us live in a forgiving environment where people have the leisure to explore ways of changing their very selves, at the physical, social and spiritual levels.
      • Voice control of the computer holds promise, but crewmembers want something much more reliable on the machine side and much more forgiving of human error.
      • They are more forgiving if the temperature's not perfect.
      • It's a forgiving recipe, so experiment a bit.
      • And improvisations are very forgiving - entered into in the spirit of ‘What's to lose?’
      • Podocarpus macrophyllus, a relative of the yew, is also very forgiving, growing to only 15 ft, hardy and good in shade.
      • From a practical standpoint, rubber is a forgiving material, able to withstand the abuse of heavy equipment and harsh chemicals, such as acetone and disinfectants.
      • Hypothetically speaking, even if there is a zero per cent chance of something going wrong on this first pilot run, what about all the other students who do not have the luxury of a forgiving schedule?
      • The forgiving rims in the arena were nothing but help for the long-distance shooting Gaels, who mostly relied on points from behind the arch to stay in the game.
      • This tolerance is less forgiving than PCI and also requires layout designers to pay attention to an additional set of constraints.

Derivatives

  • forgivingly

  • adverbfəˈɡɪvɪŋlifərˈɡɪvɪŋli
    • Hard-core still has a massive male market, but increasing numbers of women are turning on to the ‘softer’ side of sexual imagery or, as it's more forgivingly known, erotica.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The film captures these accumulating defeats tenderly and forgivingly, and makes each moment feel authentic and real.
      • The formula features a sort of sing-by-committee affair that sometimes forgivingly uses three-part harmonies to drown out the nasal lead vocal mewling.
      • Joe storms out to the pub and later returns to find that Cathie has submissively cleaned up the mess and is forgivingly waiting for him - in bed.
      • If he has struggled before and is now making progress, we might look at his writing more forgivingly and play up his accomplishments in our response.

Definition of forgiving in US English:

forgiving

adjectivefərˈɡiviNGfərˈɡɪvɪŋ
  • 1Ready and willing to forgive.

    宽大的,慈悲的

    Taylor was in a forgiving mood

    泰勒有意原谅。

    he was definitely not inclined to be forgiving of anyone spearing his cattle
    Example sentencesExamples
    • It's been suggested that having terminal cancer has made me more forgiving and magnanimous, since death is approaching at considerable speed.
    • It was lengthy and involved and I could see no one was in a forgiving mood.
    • He sat there with his head down, obviously out of shame, and I can understand that, but we are a forgiving bunch on this side of the Chamber.
    • Our attempts at being nonjudgemental, forgiving and compassionate are feeble.
    • Jacobs has a shrewd, if forgiving eye and, given his background as son of a poor black southern bar-owner, an endearing sense of the absurdity of the world he found himself in.
    • I can't be sensitive and forgiving and compassionate 24 hours a day.
    • Throughout the cast, a peculiar kind of professionalism characterised a collection of poor performances which managed to be bad without ever having even a bit of forgiving personality.
    • This is the second time my bike has been stolen so I'm not in a forgiving mood now.
    • She is the Eternal Feminine, forgiving and compassionate and able to reconcile terrorist and victim with her abounding sweetness.
    • On reflection, we usually saw the wisdom of her more forgiving approach and learned that working cooperatively achieved more in the long run and certainly made life much more pleasant.
    • Business leaders, at least, seem in a forgiving mood.
    • Now, I don't entirely agree with his position but it also seems we are not very forgiving of critical perspectives on scientific and technological innovation.
    • It was just bad luck for him that I wasn't in a forgiving mood.
    • But as I have said earlier, the audience can be very forgiving (and sometimes inanely lauding) if the director is very giving.
    • Americans are a forgiving people, a compassionate people, a people who are always ready to give a guy a second chance.
    • Richard, the upright and forgiving friend from whom Danny has grown apart over the years, hands him the story, offering him a lifeline from the past and rekindling a friendship for the future.
    • She was usually such an easy-going and forgiving kid; it just wasn't like her to be so stubborn.
    • Now investors are feeling the pain and in a less forgiving mood when it comes to executive excess or wrongdoing.
    • And yet every tale is delivered with a forgiving chuckle, every outrage defused by the affectionate admiration that Davis couldn't help inspiring in his victims.
    • The poor fools, they don't know what they are doing, he concluded, and he was able to establish a forgiving and understanding state of being.
    Synonyms
    merciful, lenient, compassionate, pitying, magnanimous, humane, clement, mild, soft-hearted, forbearing, tolerant, easy-going, indulgent, accommodating, understanding, placable
    1. 1.1 (of a thing) easy or safe to deal with.
      (物件)易于摆弄的,安全的
      it's a good, comfortable, forgiving airplane
      Example sentencesExamples
      • And improvisations are very forgiving - entered into in the spirit of ‘What's to lose?’
      • Podocarpus macrophyllus, a relative of the yew, is also very forgiving, growing to only 15 ft, hardy and good in shade.
      • Even when you hit a bum chord the guitar can make a lovely sound, which means it is a far more forgiving instrument than the descant recorder I played in Primary 5.
      • From a practical standpoint, rubber is a forgiving material, able to withstand the abuse of heavy equipment and harsh chemicals, such as acetone and disinfectants.
      • Many of us live in a forgiving environment where people have the leisure to explore ways of changing their very selves, at the physical, social and spiritual levels.
      • They are more forgiving if the temperature's not perfect.
      • It's a forgiving recipe, so experiment a bit.
      • The forgiving rims in the arena were nothing but help for the long-distance shooting Gaels, who mostly relied on points from behind the arch to stay in the game.
      • Voice control of the computer holds promise, but crewmembers want something much more reliable on the machine side and much more forgiving of human error.
      • This tolerance is less forgiving than PCI and also requires layout designers to pay attention to an additional set of constraints.
      • Hypothetically speaking, even if there is a zero per cent chance of something going wrong on this first pilot run, what about all the other students who do not have the luxury of a forgiving schedule?
      • There is a forgiving, arcade-style quality to the ride, as well as a helpful cornering aid, with arrows turning green once you have slowed to the optimum speed.
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