compassionate
adjective
verb (used with object), com·pas·sion·at·ed, com·pas·sion·at·ing.
Origin of compassionate
Synonyms for compassionate
Related Words for compassionate
sympathetic, benevolent, charitable, warm, merciful, humane, warmhearted, tender, forbearing, sparing, pitying, understanding, humanitarian, indulgent, kindhearted, kindly, lenient, piteous, responsive, softheartedExamples from the Web for compassionate
Contemporary Examples of compassionate
There is a procedure called “compassionate release” allowing terminally ill men to die at home.
The compassionate release was cancelled and he was sent back to his cell.
I know there are police officers who are kind, compassionate, and smart.
People were attracted to early Christianity by its compassionate egalitarianism.
Such is the Sierra Leonean way, the most tolerant, compassionate, and friendly people I have found anywhere.
Historical Examples of compassionate
Our Government must at the same time be both competent and compassionate.
Were you to know how I have suffered, you would be compassionate.
The DreamEmile Zola
He was quite incapable of any compassionate feeling about the boy, or about his fate.
A Tale of Two CitiesCharles Dickens
Not one to save her,––not one of all the compassionate people!
PoemsWilliam D. Howells
The others looked at him and smiled with an air of compassionate superiority.
FruitfulnessEmile Zola