Meaning

3 senses
  1. Having, feeling or showing compassion (to or toward someone).

    The Compassionate, the All-Compassionate

    mitfühlend, teilnahmsvoll, anteilnehmend

    сострада́ющийsostradájuščij, сочу́вствующийsočúvstvujuščij

    showing or having compassion

  2. Given to someone as an exception because of a family emergency or a death in their family.

    compassionate leave; a compassionate visa

    aus familiären Gründen, barmherzig

  3. (obsolete)Inviting or asking for pity.

    erbarmungswürdig, erbarmenswert, Mitleid erregend

Examples

43 sentences
  1. Tom is a very compassionate person.

    Том дуже співчутлива людина.

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  2. I think that Tom is compassionate.

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  3. I know Tom is a very compassionate person.

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  4. I know that Tom is a very compassionate person.

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  5. Tom didn't seem to be as compassionate as Mary seemed to be.

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Translations

6 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
having, feeling or showing compassion:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
having, feeling or showing compassion:
given to someone because of a family emergency:
inviting pity; pitiable:

Origin

Pseudo-Latinism, derived from a pseudo-Latin form of French compassionné, past participle

Pseudo-Latinism, derived from a pseudo-Latin form of French compassionné, past participle of compassionner (“to feel sorry for”). By surface analysis, compassion + -ate.

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