| barbarity, | ferocity, | harshness, | pitilessness, | severity, |
| brutality, | hard-heartedness, | inhumanity, | rigor, | sternness, |
| cruelty, | hardness, | mercilessness, | ruthlessness, | truculence. |
Prepositions:
Pity on or upon that which we help or spare; pity for that which we merely contemplate; "have pity upon me, O ye my friends," Job xix, 21; "pity for a horse o'erdriven," Tennyson In Memoriam lxii, st. 1.
PLANT.
Synonyms:
| seed, | seed down, | set, | set out, | sow. |
We set or set out slips, cuttings, young trees, etc., tho we may also be said to plant them; we plant corn, potatoes, etc., which we put in definite places, as in hills, with some care; we sow wheat or other small grains and seeds which are scattered in the process. Tho by modern agricultural machinery the smaller grains are almost as precisely planted as corn, the old word for broadcast scattering is retained. Land is seeded or seeded down to grass.
Antonyms:
| eradicate, | extirpate, | root up, | uproot, | weed out. |