compassionate

[com·pas·sion·ate]

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.

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Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

Verb
share the suffering of

Adjective
showing or having compassion; "heard the soft and compassionate voices of women"

Adjective S.
showing recognition of unusually distressful circumstances; "compassionate leave"; "considered for a compassionate discharge because of domestic difficulties"

Adjective S.
showing merciful compassion; "sparing the child''s mother was a compassionate act"


a.
Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

a.
Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable.

v. t.
To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.


Compassionate

Com*pas"sion*ate , a. 1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. [R.] Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender; merciful; pitiful.

Compassionate

Com*pas"sion*ate , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compassionated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Compassionating .] To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.
Compassionates my pains, and pities me.

Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.

To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.

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Usage Examples

We assume that we've come so far as compassionate citizens of the world if we do choose to read the news, yet the attitude towards life can be one where we put blinders on and forget that there are civil wars going on. It's easy to forget that there are so many people starving to death every single day.

I haven't lost faith in human nature and I haven't decided to be less compassionate to strangers.

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

As a woman, my style defines my leadership. It's a gentler, more compassionate approach. I consult, I listen and I compromise where it's in the best interest of the citizens.

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How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.

I love the idea of the teachings of Jesus Christ and the beautiful stories about it, which I loved in Sunday school and I collected all the little stickers and put them in my book. But the reality is that organised religion doesn't seem to work. It turns people into hateful lemmings and it's not really compassionate.

One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

I became a lesbian because of women, because women are beautiful, strong, and compassionate.

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