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compassionful

compassionful adjective: full of compassion; compassionate.

Adjective

compassionful (comparative more compassionful, superlative most compassionful)

  1. (rare) Full of compassion; compassionate.
    Antonyms:
    compassionless

Antonyms of compassionful

Forms of compassionful

comparativemore compassionful
superlativemost compassionful

Origin of compassionful

From compassion + -ful.

Questions about compassionful

What does compassionful mean?
Compassionful means full of compassion; compassionate.
What part of speech is compassionful?
Compassionful is an adjective.

Words near compassionful in the dictionary

  1. compassionateth
  2. compassionating
  3. compassionator
  4. compassionators
  5. compassioned
  6. compassionful
  7. compassioning
  8. compassionings
  9. compassionize
  10. compassionless
  11. compassionlessly

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