compassionate
If you are compassionate, you feel other people’s pain and struggles as though they were your own. Compassionate people are often moved to work to end the suffering of others, perhaps by feeding the hungry or educating the poor.
Compassionate comes from the Old French noun compassion, which means “sympathy, pity.” The adjective, pronounced “cuhm-PASH-uh-nuht,” means “sympathetic,” like a compassionate friend who shares in your joys and sadnesses, wanting the best for you. As a verb, compassionate, here pronounced “cuhm-PASH-uh-nate,” means “pity,” as in your ability to compassionate with stray dogs and cats.
Definitions of compassionate
showing or having compassion
“heard the soft and
compassionate voices of women”-
Synonyms:
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caringfeeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others
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nurturantproviding physical and emotional care and nourishment
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tenderheartedeasily moved by another’s distress
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humanemarked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering
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mercifulshowing or giving mercy
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sympatheticexpressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward
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Antonyms:
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uncompassionatelacking compassion or feeling for others
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hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeelingdevoid of feeling for others
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merciless, unmercifulhaving or showing no mercy
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unsympatheticnot sympathetic or disposed toward
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caring
share the suffering of
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synonyms:
condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with-
types:
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commiserate, sympathise, sympathizeto feel or express sympathy or compassion
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carefeel concern or interest
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condoleexpress one’s sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone’s death
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commiserate, sympathise, sympathize
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