compassionate
- Adjective. having, feeling of showing compassion; sympathetic.
- Adjective. given to someone because of a domestic emergency, especially in the phrase ''compassionate leave''.
- Verb. (archaic) To feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.
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