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COMPASSIONATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing or having compassion
Example:
heard the soft and compassionate voices of women
Classified under:
Similar:
caring (feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others)
nurturant (providing physical and emotional care and nourishment)
tenderhearted (easily moved by another's distress)
Also:
humane (marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering)
merciful (showing or giving mercy)
sympathetic (expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward)
Antonym:
uncompassionate (lacking compassion or feeling for others)
Derivation:
compassion (the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it)
compassion; compassionateness (a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Share the suffering of
Synonyms:
compassionate; condole with; feel for; pity; sympathize with
Classified under:
Hypernyms (to "compassionate" is one way to...):
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "compassionate"):
commiserate; sympathise; sympathize (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)
care (feel concern or interest)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
compassion (the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it)
compassion (a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering)
Context examples:
She must be courteous, and she must be compassionate.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Emma was very compassionate; and the distresses of the poor were as sure of relief from her personal attention and kindness, her counsel and her patience, as from her purse.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
The mission of the Fox Chase Cancer Center is to prevail over cancer by marshalling hearts and minds in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention, and compassionate care.
(Fox Chase Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
The Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania seeks the eradication of cancer through relentless progress in basic research, innovative translation of new knowledge through clinical trials, and state-of-the-art compassionate cancer care.
(Abramson Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
Also called compassionate use trial.
(Expanded access trial, NCI Dictionary)
The mission of the Norris Cotton Cancer Center is to understand the causes of cancer, to translate new knowledge into better prevention and treatment, and to provide effective and compassionate clinical care that improves the lives of cancer patients and families.
(Norris Cotton Cancer Center, NCI Thesaurus)
These were the reflections of my hours of despondency and solitude; but when I contemplated the virtues of the cottagers, their amiable and benevolent dispositions, I persuaded myself that when they should become acquainted with my admiration of their virtues they would compassionate me and overlook my personal deformity.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
NOTE(S): This type of study is used to register all types of non-protocol access to experimental treatments, including protocol exception, single-patient IND, treatment IND, compassionate use, emergency use, continued access and parallel track.
(Expanded Access Study Protocol Version, NCI Thesaurus/BRIDG)
Answering her compassionate gaze with a smile, I said—"I will trust you.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
As he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and sewed her together.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
