compassionate
31compassionate leave — N UNCOUNT Compassionate leave is time away from your work that your employer allows you for personal reasons, especially when a member of your family dies or is seriously ill …
32compassionate use trial — A way to provide an investigational therapy to a patient who is not eligible to receive that therapy in a clinical trial, but who has a serious or life threatening illness for which other treatments are not available. Compassionate use trials… …
33compassionate — Synonyms and related words: Christian, Christlike, Christly, accepting, ache, affectionate, benign, benignant, bleeding, brotherly, charitable, clement, commiserate, commiserative, condolent, decent, deplore, easy, easygoing, feel for, forbearant …
34compassionate — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. merciful, humane, sympathetic, tender; see humane 1 , kind , merciful 1 . See Synonym Study at tender . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. sympathetic, feeling, kind hearted, merciful, loving, charitable, concerned,… …
35compassionate — com|pas|sion|ate [ kəm pæʃnət ] adjective understanding and caring about someone who is in a bad situation ╾ com|pas|sion|ate|ly adverb …
36compassionate — com pas·sion·ate || ʃənÉ™t adj. merciful, sympathetic, full of pity …
37compassionate — adjective feeling or showing compassion. Derivatives compassionately adverb …
38compassionate — I. a. Tender, pitying, sympathetic, merciful, benignant, gracious, clement, kind, inclined to pity, full of compassion. II. v. a. Pity, commiserate, feel pity for, be moved with sympathy for …
39compassionate — adj pitying, tender, ruthful, piteous, loving; clement, lenient, mild, easy, gentle, soft; merciful, liberal, gracious, exorable, placable, touched; sympathizing, sympathetic, commiserative, consoling; kindly, benign, benignant, soft hearted,… …
40compassionate — com·pas·sion·ate …
