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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic. See Synonyms at humane.
  2. adj. Granted to an individual because of an emergency or other unusual circumstances: compassionate military leave.
  3. v. To pity.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Characterized by compassion; full of compassion or pity; easily moved to sympathy by the sufferings, wants, or infirmities of others.
  2. Calling for or calculated to excite compassion; pitiable; pitiful.
  3. Complaining.
  4. n. One who compassionates, pities, or commiserates.
  5. To have compassion for; pity; commiserate.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Having, feeling of showing compassion; sympathetic.
  2. adj. Given to someone because of a domestic emergency.
  3. v. archaic To feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful.
  2. adj. rare Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable.
  3. v. To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. showing or having compassion
  2. v. share the suffering of

Etymologies

  1. A pseudo-Latin form of French compassioné, past participle of compassionner ("feel sorry for"). (Wiktionary)

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