as in compassionate
having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another
an empathetic social worker who soon realized that the single mother was at her breaking point
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Recent Examples of empathetic
For someone who’s lived close to the edge, the film felt more hollow than empathetic.
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Beandrea July, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Task can be a drag, but its visions of what humanity needs are an act of empathetic, unapologetic faith.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Mercy, her new novel, is equally effortless, empathetic, engrossing.
—Jane Ciabattari
september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Doves are harmonious, supportive and empathetic.
—Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
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Beandrea July, IndieWire, 7 Sep. 2025
Task can be a drag, but its visions of what humanity needs are an act of empathetic, unapologetic faith.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 5 Sep. 2025
Mercy, her new novel, is equally effortless, empathetic, engrossing.
—Jane Ciabattari
september 2, Literary Hub, 2 Sep. 2025
Doves are harmonious, supportive and empathetic.
—Vicki Salemi, Boston Herald, 1 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for empathetic
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In all of those cases, the patients had run out of other options, and the organs were transplanted not through a standard clinical trial, but under special rules that permit compassionate use of experimental therapies for people in especially dire situations.—
Nadia Kounang,
CNN Money,
8 Sep. 2025
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Pure techno-solutionism falls short; building compassionate, regenerative AI demands philosophical and ethical rigor alongside technical excellence.—
Cornelia C. Walther,
Forbes.com,
7 Sep. 2025
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Public sentiment seemingly reached a turning point in July as reports of famine and Israeli soldiers firing on food lines in Gaza drove even sympathetic Democrats to issue rebukes.—
David Sivak,
The Washington Examiner,
12 Sep. 2025
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Perhaps, though, Kubrick's cold view of Jack and choice to diminish some of King's sympathetic nuances serve to heighten the terror; how much does knowing the complex motivations of a domestic abuser help their victims?—
James Grebey,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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“Empathetic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/empathetic. Accessed 16 Sep. 2025.
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