Mercantile. Commercial, traffic, business; wholesale, retail; interchangeable, marketable.

Ant. Professional; unmercantile, unmarketable, stagnant, unprofitable.

Mercenary. Paid, hired, hireling, venal; greedy, sordid, avaricious, selfish.

Ant. Generous, unselfish, lavish, prodigal, liberal, philanthropic, benevolent.

Merchandise. Wares, commodities, goods; trade, traffic, commerce; stock.

Merchant. Trader, shopkeeper, dealer, tradesman, trafficker; importer.

Ant. Shopman, salesman, retailer, pedler, huckster.

Merciful. Compassionate, tender, humane, gracious, kind, mild, clement, benignant, lenient, pitiful, forgiving; tender-hearted.

Ant. Remorseless, pitiless, inexorable, unrelenting, severe, cruel, hard, illiberal.

Mercy. Compassion, grace, favor, helpfulness, clemency, forbearance, tenderness, forgiveness, gentleness, pardon, blessing, pity, kindness, mildness, lenity, benevolence, benignity, lenience, leniency.