compassionate
v.v. showing kindness and care for others who are suffering. You use this to describe someone who wants to help people in pain.
v. feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others. Often describes a person's character or a specific act of mercy.
She is a very compassionate person.
The judge was known for his compassionate approach to sentencing young offenders who showed genuine regret.
A truly compassionate society is measured not by its wealth, but by how it treats its most vulnerable members during times of crisis.
A pseudo-Latin form of French compassionné, past participle of compassionner (“feel sorry for”). By surface analysis, compassion + -ate.
Typically precedes the noun it modifies or follows a linking verb like 'be' or 'seem'.
He felt compassionated for themHe felt compassionate toward themLearners sometimes mistakenly add an '-ed' ending to the adjective, treating it like a past participle.