compassionate

Other forms of compassionate

past tense

compassionated·

present participle

compassionating·

third person

compassionates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about compassionate

What does compassionate mean?

compassionate means "share the suffering of". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in compassionate?

compassionate has 4 syllables: com-pas-sio-nate. The stress falls on "pas". In IPA it is /kəmˈpæʃənət/.

What is another word for compassionate?

Close synonyms include feel for, pity, condole with, sympathize with. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of compassionate?

The recorded antonyms are uncompassionate.

Is compassionate a common word?

compassionate is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with compassionate?

1 word rhymes with compassionate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.