compassionate
adjective
having or showing compassion.
compassionately
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a word derived from
compassionate.
Example Sentences
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In a 1998 artistic statement, she explained her artistic goal was to “create photographic images that compassionately render the human experience.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
“I listened to her as compassionately as I could,” McAfee told me.
From Salon ● Jun. 22, 2026
A friend or family member might serve more compassionately as conservator.
From MarketWatch ● Mar. 3, 2026
“You can’t describe the situation and logically or compassionately say, ‘We’re going to play,’” Tagliabue told NFL.com in 2021.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2025
Seeing him lost in the labyrinths of kinship, trembling with uncertainty, the arthritic priest, who was watching him from his hammock, asked him compassionately what his name was.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
