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compassionate
Synonyms and Antonyms of compassionate
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having or marked by sympathy and consideration for others
attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful
affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm
clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft
patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding
altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing
2
having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another
feeling, perceptive, sensitive
considerate, gentle, softhearted, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted
benevolent, benignant, bighearted, charitable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, largehearted, magnanimous
clement, lenient, merciful, tolerant
congenial, cordial, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, well-disposed
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, unthinking
aloof, cool, indifferent, uncaring, uninterested
unaffectionate, unfriendly, unloving
bigoted, blinkered, narrow-minded, small-minded
brutal, grim, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, harsh, oppressive, rough, severe, stern, tough, ungentle, unrelenting
abusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, hostile, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, unkind, virulent
compassionate
Synonyms and Antonyms of compassionate
to have sympathy for
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