Word Meanings - COMPASSIONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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;

Additional info about word: 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; merciful; pitiful.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPASSIONATE)

• Charitable
• Kind
• benign
• benevolent
• beneficent
• liberal
• considerate
• forgiving
• compassionate
• placable
• inexacting
• inextreme
• Commiserate
• Despise
• contemn
• pity
• condole
• sympathize
• Humane
• Benign
• kind
• tender
• merciful
• Benevolent
• indulgent
• humane
• clement
• lenient
• gentle
• good
• gracious
• forbearing
• kind-hearted
• Tender
• delicate
• frail
• impressible
• susceptible
• yielding
• soft
• effeminate
• weak
• feeble
• affectionate
• careful
• jealous
• mild
• meek
• pitiful
• pathetic

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPASSIONATE)

• Withhold
• withdraw
• retain
• appropriate

Related words: (words related to COMPASSIONATE)

• CONDOLER
  One who condoles.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• INEXACTLY
  In a manner not exact or precise; inaccurately. R. A. Proctor.
• FRAILNESS
  Frailty.
• APPROPRIATENESS
  The state or quality of being appropriate; peculiar fitness. Froude.
• INEXACT
  Not exact; not precisely correct or true; inaccurate.
• BENEFICENT
  , a. Doing or producing good; performing acts of kindness and charity; characterized by beneficence. The beneficent fruits of Christianity. Prescott. Syn. -- See Benevolent.
• LIBERALIZE
  To make liberal; to free from narrow views or prejudices. To open and to liberalize the mind. Burke.
• TENDERLY
  In a tender manner; with tenderness; mildly; gently; softly; in a manner not to injure or give pain; with pity or affection; kindly. Chaucer.
• CHARITABLENESS
  The quality of being charitable; the exercise of charity.
• JEALOUSHOOD
  Jealousy. Shak.
• DELICATE
  1. A choice dainty; a delicacy. With abstinence all delicates he sees. Dryden. 2. A delicate, luxurious, or effeminate person. All the vessels, then, which our delicates have, -- those I mean that would seem to be more fine in their houses than
• TENDERNESS
  The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective). Syn. -- Benignity; humanity; sensibility; benevolence; kindness; pity; clemency; mildness; mercy.
• SYMPATHIZE
  1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster. 2. To feel in consequence
• KIND-HEARTED
  Having kindness of nature; sympathetic; characterized by a humane disposition; as, a kind-hearted landlord. To thy self at least kind-hearted prove. Shak.
• RETAINMENT
  The act of retaining; retention. Dr. H. More.
• BENEVOLENT
  Having a disposition to do good; possessing or manifesting love to mankind, and a desire to promote their prosperity and happiness; disposed to give to good objects; kind; charitable. -- Be*nev"o*lent*ly, adv. Syn. -- Benevolent, Beneficent.
• GENTLE
  1. To make genteel; to raise from the vulgar; to ennoble. Shak. 2. To make smooth, cozy, or agreeable. To gentle life's descent, We shut our eyes, and think it is a plain. Young. 3. To make kind and docile, as a horse.
• LENIENTLY
  In a lenient manner.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• UNPLACABLE
  Implacable.
• TENDER
  A vessel employed to attend other vessels, to supply them with provisions and other stores, to convey intelligence, or the like. 3. A car attached to a locomotive, for carrying a supply of fuel and water. (more info) 1. One who tends; one who takes
• SYMPATHETIC
  1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
• FRAIL
  A basket made of rushes, used chiefly for containing figs and raisins. 2. The quantity of raisins -- about thirty-two, fifty-six, or seventy-five pounds, -- contained in a frail. 3. A rush for weaving baskets. Johnson.
• INCLEMENT
  1. Not clement; destitute of a mild and kind temper; void of tenderness; unmerciful; severe; harsh. 2. Physically severe or harsh (generally restricted to the elements or weather); rough; boisterous; stormy; rigorously cold, etc.; as, inclement
• ILLIBERALISM
  Illiberality.
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be
• TAFFRAIL
  The upper part of a ship's stern, which is flat like a table on the top, and sometimes ornamented with carved work; the rail around a ship's stern.
• DISGRACIOUS
  Wanting grace; unpleasing; disagreeable. Shak.
• THEOPATHETIC; THEOPATHIC
  Of or pertaining to a theopathy.