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CONSIDERATE
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing concern for the rights and feelings of others
Example:
friends considerate enough to leave us alone
Classified under:
Similar:
thoughtful (considerate of the feelings or well-being of others)
Also:
kind (having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior)
unselfish (disregarding your own advantages and welfare over those of others)
tactful (having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others)
Antonym:
inconsiderate (lacking regard for the rights or feelings of others)
Derivation:
considerateness (kind and considerate regard for others)
Context examples:
Renfield watched them go; when the door was closed he said, with considerable dignity and sweetness:—"Dr. Seward, you have been very considerate towards me. Believe me that I am very, very grateful to you!"
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“Copperfield,” said Traddles, turning to me, “you feel, I am sure, that nothing could be more reasonable or considerate.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
“Well, that was reasonable and considerate,” said Holmes.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
No more would Sir John, nor my daughters, for they are all very thoughtful and considerate; especially if I give them a hint, as I certainly will.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
I thoroughly understand you, cried Mrs. Norris, you are everything that is generous and considerate, and I am sure we shall never disagree on this point.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Just like her! so considerate!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Steerforth was considerate, too; and showed his consideration, in one particular instance, in an unflinching manner that was a little tantalizing, I suspect, to poor Traddles and the rest.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
She found that she had been misled by the careful, the considerate attention of her daughter, to think the attachment, which once she had so well understood, much slighter in reality, than she had been wont to believe, or than it was now proved to be.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Dearest Fanny! cried Edmund, pressing her hand to his lips with almost as much warmth as if it had been Miss Crawford's, you are all considerate thought!
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
Mr. Knightley, always so kind, so feeling, so truly considerate for every body, would never deserve to be less worshipped than now; and it really was too much to hope even of Harriet, that she could be in love with more than three men in one year.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
