compassionate

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

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