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caring

UK/ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ//ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ/

caring adjective: kind, sensitive, or empathetic. Also the present participle and gerund of care.

Adjective

caring (comparative more caring, superlative most caring)

  1. Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.
    • She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.

Noun

caring (plural carings)

  1. The act of one who cares.
    • As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.1988, Thomas Stephen Szasz, The Myth of Psychotherapy, page 183

Also used as

caring is also the present participle and gerund of care.

Examples of caring in a sentence

  • Finally she was relieved of the burden of caring for her sick husband.
  • Caring for a loved one with a chronic illness inevitably involves self-sacrifice.
  • At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.

All 40 example sentences with caring

Forms of caring

Adjective
comparativemore caring
superlativemost caring
Noun
pluralcarings

Origin of caring

From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.

Words formed from caring

Phrases with caring

Words that rhyme with caring

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Questions about caring

What does caring mean?
Caring means kind, sensitive, or empathetic.
What part of speech is caring?
Caring can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce caring?
Caring is pronounced /ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ/ (UK).

Words near caring in the dictionary

  1. carindacillin
  2. carinderia
  3. carinderias
  4. carine
  5. carines
  6. caring
  7. caring a button
  8. caring a fig
  9. caring a jackstraw
  10. caring a monkey's
  11. caring a whit

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