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Word Meanings - COMPASSIONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable. Barrow.

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  • COMPASSIONATELY
    In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
  • DESERVEDNESS
    Meritoriousness.
  • DESERVE
    1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
  • DESERVEDLY
    According to desert ; justly.
  • DESERVING
    Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
  • BARROW
    A heap of rubbish, attle, etc. (more info) mound; akin to G. berg mountain, Goth. bairgahei hill, hilly country, and perh. to Skr. b high, OIr. brigh mountain. Cf. Berg, Berry a 1. A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead;
  • PITIABLE
    Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness. Syn. -- Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous. -- Pit"i*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pit"i*a*bly, adv.
  • BARROWIST
    A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
  • COMPASSIONATE
    1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South. 2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender;
  • COMPASSION
    Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay. Syn. -- Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling;
  • COMPASSIONATENESS
    The quality or state of being compassionate.
  • COMPASSIONABLE
    Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable. Barrow.
  • DESERVER
    One who deserves.
  • INCOMPASSIONATE
    Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
  • HANDBARROW
    A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
  • UNDESERVER
    One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
  • UNDESERVE
    To fail to deserve. Milton.
  • WHEELBARROW
    A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
  • PROPITIABLE
    Capable of being propitiated.
  • SEA BARROW
    A sea purse.
  • INCOMPASSION
    Want of compassion or pity. Bp. Sanderson.

 

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