- 1connected with a charity or charities a charitable institution/foundation/trust a charitable donation/gift
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- 2helping people who are poor or in need His later years were devoted largely to charitable work.
- 3kind in your attitude to other people, especially when you are judging them Let's be charitable and assume she just made a mistake. opposite uncharitable
NAmE//ˈtʃærət̮əbli//
adverb Try to think about him a little more charitably.See charitable in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: charitable