compassionate
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compassionate
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Synonyms & Antonyms for compassionate
Synonyms: Adjective
beneficent, benevolent, benignant, good-hearted, humane, kind, kindhearted, kindly, softhearted, sympathetic, tender, tenderhearted, warmhearted
Synonyms: Verb
ache (for), bleed (for), commiserate (with), condole (with), feel (for), pity, sympathize (with), yearn (over)
Antonyms: Adjective
atrocious, barbaric, barbarous, bestial, brutal, brute, brutish, callous, cold-blooded, cruel, fiendish, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, sadistic, savage, truculent, uncompassionate, unfeeling, unkind, unkindly, unsympathetic, vicious, wanton
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Examples of compassionate in a Sentence
Adjective
a compassionate person by nature a compassionate smile made the refugees feel a little better
Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Joey's family would like to thank the Nurses and Staff of the Helen and Harry Gray Cancer Center and Home Hospice for their professional and compassionate care. — courant.com, "Joseph J. Parker," 4 Sep. 2019 Rooney, who before purchasing the franchise played semipro baseball and was an amateur boxing champion, forged a reputation as humble, compassionate and fatherly. — The Si Staff, SI.com, "100 Figures Who Shaped the NFL’s First Century," 28 Aug. 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'compassionate.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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compassionate
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