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compassionate
Synonyms and Antonyms of compassionate
- a compassionate person by nature
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
- a compassionate smile made the refugees feel a little better
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, unthinking
aloof, cool, indifferent, uncaring, uninterested
unaffectionate, unfriendly, unloving
bigoted, narrow-minded, small-minded
brutal, grim, harsh, oppressive, rough, severe, stern, tough, unrelenting
abusive, acrimonious, hateful, hostile, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, unkind, virulent
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