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# compassionate

«compassionate» in Mova's school dictionary: **feeling sorry for people in trouble and wanting to help them** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (more compassionate, most compassionate)

### meaning for a pupil

Compassionate means feeling sorry for people in trouble and wanting to help them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compassionate/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a judge, soldier or nurse is compassionate when they pity a poor person and act kindly.

### examples

- The kind nurse was compassionate to the sick child. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compassionate/#x1)
- A compassionate judge listened to the poor man. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compassionate/#x2)
- The old soldier had a compassionate heart and opened the door. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compassionate/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is compassionate.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2116/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «compassionate» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/compassionate/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.