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Compassionate

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Verb

1. compassionate, condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with

share the suffering of

Adjective

2. compassionate

showing or having compassion

Example Sentences:
'heard the soft and compassionate voices of women'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Compassionate

see synonyms of compassionate
adjective
1. 
showing or having compassion
2.  compassionate leave

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Compassionate

see synonyms of compassionate
adjective
1. 
feeling or showing compassion; sympathizing deeply; pitying
verb transitiveWord forms: comˈpassionˌated or comˈpassionˌating
2. 
to pity

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Compassionate

see synonyms of compassionate
adj.
1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.
2. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: compassionate military leave.
tr.v. (-nāt′) com·pas·sion·at·ed, com·pas·sion·at·ing, com·pas·sion·ates
To pity.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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