Synonyms:
compassionate
Meaning: showing or having compassion; "heard the soft and compassionate voices of women"
verb
meaning of the word
Synonyms:
feel_for, pity, compassionate, condole_with, sympathize_with
Meaning: share the suffering of
Usage examples
My good mother did all that the most compassionate kindness could do (in her position) to comfort me.
'Poor papa!'--trying to divert her mother's thoughts into compassionate sympathy for all her father had gone through.
It was the picture of a shepherd, with a very kind and compassionate face, who was bearing home in his bosom a lost lamb.
Mary, look across the room to where we were just now--to where my father is--my father, so compassionate and loving to me--and tell me what you see."
Defarge, a weak minority, interposed a few words for the memory of the compassionate wife of the Marquis; but only elicited from his own wife a repetition of her last reply.
"When equity may and should be brought into play, press not the utmost rigour of the law against the guilty; for the reputation of the stern judge stands not higher than that of the compassionate.
Could I wish to deliver to him, who had so basely betrayed the mother, the helpless and innocent offspring, who, born in so much sorrow, seemed entitled to all the compassionate tenderness of pity?
We parted with great heartiness on both sides; and when I had seen Traddles to his own door, and was going home alone, I thought, among the other odd and contradictory things I mused upon, that, slippery as Mr. Micawber was, I was probably indebted to some compassionate recollection he retained of me as his boy-lodger, for never having been asked by him for money.