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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Verb compassionate has 1 sense
- compassionate(v = verb.emotion) condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with - share the suffering of; Array is one way to grieve, sorrow
Derived forms noun compassion2, noun compassion1
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody
Adjective compassionate has 1 sense
- compassionate(a = adj.all) Array - showing or having compassion; "heard the soft and compassionate voices of women" Derived forms noun compassion2, noun compassion1, noun compassionateness1
Antonym: uncompassionate
CIDE DICTIONARY
compassionate, a.
- Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. [1913 Webster]"There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate." [1913 Webster]
- Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak.
Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender; merciful; pitiful.
compassionate, v. t.
To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with. [1913 Webster]
"Compassionates my pains, and pities me."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
compassionate, adj. sympathetic, pitying.
Idiom
compassionate leave Brit. leave granted on grounds of bereavement etc.
Derivative
compassionately adv.
Etymology
obs. F compassion{eacute} f. compassioner feel pity (as COMPASSION)
THESAURUS
compassionate
Christian, Christlike, Christly, accepting, ache, affectionate, benign, benignant, bleeding, brotherly, charitable, clement, commiserate, commiserative, condolent, decent, deplore, easy, easygoing, feel for, forbearant, forbearing, forgiving, fraternal, gentle, good, gracious, grieve over, human, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, lament, lax, lenient, loving, melting, merciful, mild, moderate, mourn, nice, patient, piteous, pitiful, pity, pitying, regret, repine, responsive, ruthful, soft, softhearted, sympathetic, sympathize with, sympathizing, tender, tenderhearted, tolerant, understanding, warm, warmheartedROGET THESAURUS
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Pity
VB pity, have pity, show pity, take pity, commiserate, compassionate, condole, sympathize, feel for, be sorry for, yearn for, weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of, forbear, relent, relax, give quarter, wipe the tears, parcere subjectis, give a coup de gr=ace, put out of one's misery, raise pity, excite pity, touch, soften, melt, melt the heart, propitiate, disarm, ask for mercy, supplicate, cry for quarter, beg one's life, kneel, deprecate.N pity, compassion, commiseration, bowels, of compassion, sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency, leniency, charity, ruth, long- suffering, melting mood, argumentum ad misericordiam, quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae, sympathizer, advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher, pitying, pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched, merciful, clement, ruthful, humane, humanitarian, tender, tender hearted, tender as a chicken, soft, soft hearted, unhardened, lenient, exorable, forbearing, melting, weak, Int, for pity's sake!, mercy!, have mercy!, cry you mercy!, God help you!, poor thing!, poor dear!, poor fellow!, woe betide!, quis talia fando temperet a lachrymiss!, one's heart bleeding for, haud ignara mali miseris succurrere disco, a fellow feeling makes one wondrous kind, onor di bocca assai giova e poco costa.
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