charitable
adjective/ˈtʃærətəbl/
/ˈtʃærətəbl/
- connected with a charity or charities
- a charitable institution/foundation/trust
- a charitable donation/gift
- (British English) to have charitable status (= to be an official charity)
- helping people who are poor or in need
- His later years were devoted largely to charitable work.
- kind in your attitude to other people, especially when you are judging them
- Let's be charitable and assume she just made a mistake.
- Less charitable accounts of his character say he was vain and selfish.
opposite uncharitable
Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘showing Christian love to God and man’): from Old French, from charite, from Latin caritas, from carus ‘dear’.
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