compassionate.
Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).
Meaning & usage
Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).
The Compassionate, the All-Compassionate
Given to someone as an exception because of a family emergency or a death in their family.
compassionate leave; a compassionate visa
Inviting or asking for pity.
Where this word comes from
Pseudo-Latinism, derived from a pseudo-Latin form of French compassionné, past participle of compassionner (“to feel sorry for”). By surface analysis, compassion + -ate.
To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something); to regard (someone or something) with compassion.
Where this word comes from
Pseudo-Latinism, derived from a pseudo-Latin form of French compassionné, past participle of compassionner (“to feel sorry for”). By surface analysis, compassion + -ate.
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