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compassionate
Adjective
  • Having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.
  • Of a leave, given to someone because of a domestic emergency.
  • Inviting pity; pitiable. obsolete
Verb
  • To feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for. archaic