compassionately
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3.0
- adverb
- /kəmˈpæʃənətli/
:
compasivamente
- Children need routine, structure, rules, expectations, and someone who is compassionately keeping the trains running on time.
- listen compassionately
- live compassionately
Listen in on what's going on, inquire compassionately, curiously.
- Listen in on what's going on, inquire compassionately, curiously.
- If you have awakened spiritually and they haven't, so compassionately accept that they cannot understand you.
- But, you know, it comes down to how do you speak compassionately about things your parents didn't give you?
- So we, there's a there, there, there's no question that there are inequalities that we want to respond to compassionately.
- I truly believe that these intergenerational cycles, when they're not good for us, can be ended and they can be ended compassionately.
- That actually came from a place of genuinely listening and genuinely compassionately giving.
- To connect compassionately, skilfully, and then to express through what we do through our work, why we're being paid what we're here to do in student affairs.
Examples
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And she would look at them with so much love and compassion and say, I'm going to lovingly and compassionately say no.
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Being treated respectfully and compassionately is important to them, possibly the most important quality stated by students.
Academic text (2008) -
He often spoke of how compassionately you advised him on the best course of action during my kidnapping.
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We're learning to be self aware, but compassionately self aware, kindly self aware to not judge ourselves 'cause you know, we didn't decide to be this way.
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"For couples who have stillborn babies, having people who listen compassionately and without judgment is a true gift."
Blog text (17) -
Erin watches compassionately as Donna flails to get her kids out of the contaminated water.
Fiction book (2000) -
Rather than portraying addicts as criminals, they were more compassionately portrayed as suffering from a treatable disease.
Academic text (2009) -
The nurse spoke compassionately to the patients to make them feel comfortable during their treatment.
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He listened compassionately as she shared her difficult experiences with him.
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After the accident, the community came together compassionately to support the victims and their families.
Synonyms
23
1.6
In a gentle, caring way that shows love
16
4.8
In a kind way that shows forgiveness to someone in need
14
3.7
In a kind and careful way that avoids causing harm to people or animals
10
3.3
In a kind, understanding way toward someone's feelings
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4.2
In a way that shows care for other people's feelings and needs
1
7.4
You act with careful concern for someone's needs
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5.3
In a way that shows you understand and care about another person's feelings
1
4.9
In a way that shows you understand and share another person's feelings
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3.0
In a way that shows care for other people's feelings and needs
Antonyms
How Compassionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
compassionately = compassionate (transparent) = compassion + ate + ly
Forming an adverb with -ly from the adjective 'compassionate' is a regular and transparent process.
Etymology
The word compassionately comes from com- meaning 'with' and passion meaning 'suffering'. So, to act compassionately is to 'feel with' someone who is in pain and to show care and kindness.