COMPASSIONATE Synonyms

• of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system

• expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward

• (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

• having similar disposition and tastes

• relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body

• intending or showing kindness

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

• generous in providing aid to others

• generous in assistance to the poor

• a loving feeling

• feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others

• relating to or characterized by charity

• full of love and generosity

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

• having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior

• a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality

• agreeable, conducive to comfort

• tolerant and forgiving under provocation

• showing or giving mercy

• (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) gracious

• easily moved to pity or sorrow

• given to sympathy or gentleness or sentimentality

• easy to cut or chew

• physically untoughened

• something that can be used as an official medium of payment

• someone who waits on or tends to or attends to the needs of another

• a formal proposal to buy at a specified price

• car attached to a locomotive to carry fuel and water

• a boat for communication between ship and shore

• ship that usually provides supplies to other ships

• hurting

• young and immature

• having or displaying warmth or affection

• (used of boats) inclined to heel over easily under sail

• (of plants) not hardy; easily killed by adverse growing condition

• offer or present for acceptance

• propose a payment

• make a tender of; in legal settlements

• make tender or more tender as by marinating, pounding, or applying a tenderizer

• the cognitive condition of someone who understands

• the statement (oral or written) of an exchange of promises

• an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion

• the capacity for rational thought or inference or discrimination

• characterized by understanding based on comprehension and discernment and empathy

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

• an unfortunate development

• the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

• share the suffering of

• inspiring mixed contempt and pity

• deserving or inciting pity

• feeling or expressing pain or sorrow for sins or offenses

• share the suffering of

• share the suffering of

• share the suffering of