COMPASSIONATE
Dictionary entry overview: What does compassionate mean?
• COMPASSIONATE (adjective)
The adjective COMPASSIONATE has 2 senses:
1. showing merciful compassion
2. showing or having compassion
Familiarity information: COMPASSIONATE used as an adjective is rare.
• COMPASSIONATE (verb)
The verb COMPASSIONATE has 1 sense:
1. share the suffering of
Familiarity information: COMPASSIONATE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COMPASSIONATE (adjective)
Meaning:
Showing merciful compassion
Context example:
sparing the child's mother was a compassionate act
Similar:
merciful (showing or giving mercy)
Meaning:
Showing or having compassion
Context example:
heard the soft and compassionate voices of women
Similar:
caring (feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others)
nurturant (providing physical and emotional care and nourishment)
pitying; sorry (feeling or expressing sorrow or pity)
tenderhearted (easily moved by another's distress)
Also:
humane (marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering)
merciful (showing or giving mercy)
sympathetic (expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward)
Antonym:
uncompassionate (lacking compassion or feeling for others)
• COMPASSIONATE (verb)
Meaning:
Share the suffering of
Classified under:
Verbs of feeling
Synonyms:
compassionate; condole with; feel for; pity; sympathize with
Hypernyms (to "compassionate" is one way to...):
grieve; sorrow (feel grief; eat one's heart out)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compassionate"):
commiserate; sympathise; sympathize (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)
care (feel concern or interest)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
