Compassionate

Definition: Compassionate

Compassionate

Adjective

1. Showing merciful compassion; "sparing the child's mother was a compassionate act".

2. Showing or having compassion; "heard the soft and compassionate voices of women".

3. Showing recognition of unusually distressful circumstances; "compassionate leave"; "considered for a compassionate discharge because of domestic difficulties".

Verb

1. Share the suffering of.

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Date "compassionate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Health

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Synonyms: Compassionate

Pity

Verb: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; Noun: commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of.

Adjective: pitying; Verb: pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched.

Crosswords: Compassionate

And they say you aren't compassionate. (Third Watch; writing credit: Grant Taylor)

Be tender to the young, compassionate to the aged, tolerant with the weak; for in your life you will be all of these. (references; author: unknown)

Compassionate Leave? (1967)

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Books

• Mindfulness in the Marketplace: Compassionate Responses to Consumerism (reference)

• Sacred Passage: How to Provide Fearless, Compassionate Care for the Dying (reference)

• Simpler Living, Compassionate Life: A Christian Perspective (reference)

• Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living (Shambhala Classics) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Compassionate Friends National Magazine (reference)

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But the compassionate feelings of a friend of her father gave a change to her destiny.

His look was full of compassionate and supplicating agony.

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Health

All students with TS need a tolerant and compassionate setting that both encourages them to work to their full potential and is flexible enough to accommodate their special needs. (references)

Business

Establishing credible rapport with women is important, whether it be through quality, patient oriented OB-GYN, complementary public health education, or compassionate pediatric care. One of the reasons why the female expatriate president of a successful American JV hospital began operations in China was because there were no comfortable options for delivering her children while in the country. (references)

Civil Liberties

Hong Kong

The 1951 U.N. Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees and its 1967 Protocol does not extend to Hong Kong, and the SAR eliminated its first asylum policy (extended only to Vietnamese) in 1998. On a case-by-case basis, the Director of Immigration has discretion to grant refugee status or asylum in cases of exceptional humanitarian or compassionate need, but the Immigration Ordinance does not provide foreigners any right to have their asylum claim recognized. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Compassionate

Expressions using "compassionate": be compassionate ♦ compassionate allowance ♦ compassionate leave ♦ compassionate lies ♦ compassionate use ♦ on compassionate ground. Additional references.

Ending with "compassionate": non-compassionate, over-compassionate.

Albanian

zemërdhembsur (merciful, sympathetic), përdëllyes, mëshiroj (commiserate, pity), i mëshirshëm (beneficent, Clement, merciful, pitiful), i dhembshëm. (various references)

Arabic 

‏حنون (affectionate, feeling, fond, kind, merciful, motherly, pitying, soft-hearted, soulful, tender, tender-hearted, whole-hearted), ‏حساس (critical, emotional, feeling, fine, hypersensitive, impressionable, maudlin, responsive, sensational, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sentiment, sentimental, susceptible, sympathetic, temperamental, tender, tender-hearted, ticklish), ‏رحيم (beneficent, clement, merciful, pitying, sympathetic), ‏شفق (compassion, feel pity for, feel sorry for, have mercy, pity), ‏شفوق (kind, kind hearted, pitying, soft-hearted, sympathetic, tender-hearted). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съчувствувам (commiserate, condole, sympathize), съчувствен (commiserative, feeling, responsive, soft, sympathetic, understanding). (various references)

Chinese 

慈悲 (Compassionately, mercy), 慈 (gentle, humane, kind, merciful). (various references)

Czech

soucitný (feeling, passionate, pitiful, sympathetic, tenderhearted, warmhearted), úèastný. (various references)

Danish

informeret samtykke (compassionate use, etc., informed consent, legal consent, measures, obligation to permit treatment). (various references)

Dutch

vermeerdering van buitengewoon pensioen (compassionate allowance), toekenning uit medelijden (compassionate use). (various references)

Finnish

sääliväinen (full of pity, pitying), armahtavainen (merciful). (various references)

French

compatissant, être composant. (various references)

German

mitleidig (merciful, mercifully, pitiful, pitifully, pitying, sympathetic). (various references)

Greek 

σπλαχνικόσ (charitable), φιλεύσπλαχνοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

ח� ון (gracious, merciful), רחמן (merciful, tenderhearted), רחמ� י (lenient, merciful, pitiful), רחום (merciful, softhearted). (various references)

Hungarian

könyörületes (charitable, gracious, merciful, pitiful). (various references)

Indonesian

sangat terharu. (various references)

Italian

compassionevole (pitiable), compassionare, pietoso (depressingly, merciful, piteous, pitiable, pitiful, sorry, wretched). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

血の通った (blood-circulating, warm), 情深い (tender-hearted), 情け深い (tender-hearted). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

なさけぶかい (tender-hearted), ちのかよった (blood-circulating, warm). (various references)

Korean 

자비로운 (Benign, Charitable, gracious). (various references)

Manx

erreeishagh (sympathetic). (various references)

Pig Latin

ompassionatecay

Portuguese

compassivo (condolatory, humane, merciful, mild, open-hearted, soft, tender-hearted, warm-hearted), ter compaixão (commiserate). (various references)

Romanian

compãtimitor (compassionately, feeling, humane, merciful, pitiful, pitifully, sympathetic, sympathetically, tender-hearted), milos (charitable, kind hearted, pitiful, soft-hearted). (various references)

Russian 

сострадательный (merciful, pitiful), сочувствующий (commiserative, condolatory, fellow-traveller, sympathizer). (various references)

Scottish

tairis (kind, tender-hearted, the dairymaid's cry to calm a cow: cf. Old Irish tairissim). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

samilostan, osećajan (kind, sentimental). (various references)

Spanish

compasivo (ardent, interested, merciful, soft-hearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, understanding), misericordioso (charitable, Clement, merciful). (various references)

Swedish

medlidsam (pitiful). (various references)

Turkish

sevecen (affectionate, benign, benignant, caressing, endearing, heartthrob, sisterly, tender), merhametli (benignant, charitable, christian, Clement, gracious, lenient, merciful, pitiful, pitying, propitious, samaritan, softhearted, tenderhearted), şefkâtli (affectionate, caressing, caring, charitable, endearing, loving, samaritan, tender, tender-hearted). (various references)

Turkmen 

rehimli (generous, sorrowful), rehimdar (generous, sorrowful), dцzьmsiz (sympathetic). (various references)

Ukrainian

співчувати (commiserate, compassion, condole, empathize, feel for, feel sorry, have pity, pity, sympathize, warm, yearn), жаліти (compassion). (various references)

Vietnamese 

thương xót (pitiful, pitying), thương hại (commiserative, pitiful, pitying, yearning), động lòng trắc ẩn trợ cấp ngo� i chế độ phép nghỉ cho vì thương tình, động lòng thương. (various references)

Welsh

trugarog (merciful), tosturiol, tosturio (pity). (various references)

pius. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "compassionate": compassionated, compassionately, compassionateness, compassionatenesses, compassionates. (additional references)

Words ending with "compassionate": uncompassionate. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Compassionate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comassionate, compasionate, compassiona, compassiponate. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: anapestics, anastomose, anatomises, aposematic, apostacies, campesinos, caseations, compassion, composites, economists, encomiasts, isooctanes, moonscapes, onomastics, passionate.

-4 letters: amnesiacs, anapestic, anatomies, anatomise, anoopsias, associate, campesino, campiness, campsites, canoeists, capstones, caseation, cessation, coinmates, companies, composite, economist, empoisons, encomiast, encompass, estancias, isooctane, misatones, monastics, moonscape, nepotisms, onomastic, paeanisms, ptomaines, saponites, scotopias, semantics, snoopiest, soapstone, sonicates, spooniest.

+1 letter: compassionated, compassionates.

+2 letters: compassionately, uncompassionate.

+4 letters: compassionateness.