compassionate
adjective/kəmˈpæʃənət/
/kəmˈpæʃənət/
- feeling or showing sympathy for people or animals who are suffering
- Politicians are not usually regarded as warm or compassionate people.
- He was allowed to go home on compassionate grounds (= because he was suffering).
Extra ExamplesTopics Personal qualitiesc1- Are these the actions of a compassionate and caring society?
- She sought permission to travel to relatives in Chile on compassionate grounds.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- feel
- sound
- …
- deeply
- very
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from compassion + -ate, influenced by archaic French compassioné ‘feeling pity’.
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