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- pronunciation:
- k
 m
pae
sh
niht
- features:
- Word Combinations (adjective), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
filled with compassion; consoling; sympathetic.
She was a compassionate woman who never tired of caring for others.He was compassionate toward the needy in the community and did what he could to help.- synonyms:
- kind, kindhearted, merciful, soft-hearted, sympathetic, understanding
- antonyms:
- callous, cold-hearted, cruel, heartless, impersonal, insensitive, merciless, unfeeling
- similar words:
- bighearted, charitable, commiserative, forgiving, good, gracious, humane, warm-hearted
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| related words: |
affectionate, altruistic, considerate, human, kind, soft, sparing, sympathetic, tender-hearted |
adverb + (adj.)compassionate
genuinely, less, more, truly, unusually
(adj.)compassionate
+ adverb
deeply, socially
(adj.)compassionate
+ noun
agenda,
being,
care,
chaplaincy,
circle,
compassion,
conservatism,
conservative,
disposition,
elder,
era,
exception,
fate,
guide,
healer,
impulse,
leave,
liberal,
listener,
listening,
message,
neighbor,
person,
philosophy,
physician,
priest,
professional,
rhetoric,
slogan,
society,
suffering,
theme,
tone,
touch,
trickster,
understanding,
use,
welfare
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| derivation: |
compassionately (adv.) |
The word compassionate
contains the following parts:
-ate2
Latin
adjective-forming suffix
that means full of; in a state of
  Example words:
-ion
Latin
noun-forming suffix
that means the act, process, or result of
More about this word part:
The suffix -ion
attaches to bases that are Latin verb stems ending in s or t.
Example words:
ablation, abrasion, accession, action, addiction, addition, admission, adoption, affection, affliction, aggression, ambition, attention, audition, commission, commissioner, compassion, compassionate, conclusion, condition, confusion, congestion, construction, direction, diction, dictionary, exclusion, expedition, fusion, illusion, immersion, incision, interaction, inquisition, mission, nation, omission, passion, passionate, permission, prediction, prescription, question, reaction, reflection, rendition, revolution, satisfaction, section, session, solution, television, transaction
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