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compassionate
 
Adjective compassionate has 3 senses
  1. compassionate - showing merciful compassion; "sparing the child's mother was a compassionate act"
    Antonyms:     merciless, unmerciful (indirect, via merciful)
  2. compassionate - showing or having compassion; "heard the soft and compassionate voices of women"
    Antonyms:     uncompassionate, hardhearted, stonyhearted, unfeeling
  3. compassionate - showing recognition of unusually distressful circumstances; "compassionate leave"; "considered for a compassionate discharge because of domestic difficulties"
    Antonym:     inhumane (indirect, via humane)
Verb compassionate has 1 sense
  1. feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with - share the suffering of
    --1 is one way to grieve, sorrow
    Derived forms: noun compassion1, noun compassion2
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s somebody
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