compassionate

Word family

com·pas·sion·ate /kəmˈpæʃənət/ adjectiveadj

SYMPATHIZEfeeling sympathy for people who are suffering 充满同情心的，怜悯的

a caring compassionate man

有同情心并关爱他人的人

I allowed him to go home on compassionate grounds.

我出于同情让他回家了。

One measure of a civilized and compassionate society is how well it treats its prison population.

衡量一个文明和有同情心的社会的尺度之一，就是看它如何对待囚犯。

► see thesaurus at sympathetic

—compassionately adverbadv

Examples from the Corpus

compassionate• It is essential that assessment in a Catholic school should be compassionate.• Bill Clinton is seen as more compassionate.• In those switched-off moods he was no longer loving, no longer amusing, no longer thoughtful or considerate or gentlemanly or compassionate.• A compassionate act comes out of a compassionate feeling.• The caring and compassionate are also capable of being utterly ruthless, as Mrs Williams was sometimes claimed to be.• Critics worry that compassionate conservatism involves subcontracting social welfare to nutty evangelicals.• The church has inspired countless compassionate men and women to help the needy in times of famine, war, and plague.• We must try to create a more caring, more compassionate society.• Our city has earned a reputation as a place where government is compassionate toward the poor and disadvantaged.• If they are confident and compassionate, we are uplifted and encouraged.• Alice was a compassionate woman who wanted to save children from violence and poverty.

Chinese

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Corpus

BNC: 13833 COCA: 7812

compassionate

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB

VERBS

➤be, feel, sound有同情心；感到同情；聽起來有同情心

ADVERB

➤deeply, very富有同情心

◇a deeply compassionate man富有同情心的男子

BNC: 13833 COCA: 7812

compassionate adj.
⇨ sensitive 1

BNC: 13833 COCA: 7812

compassionate

Kind, gentle and sensitive: gentle, nice, sensitive...