Word Meanings - COMPASSIONABLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable. Barrow.

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• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• DESERVEDNESS
  Meritoriousness.
• DESERVE
  1. To earn by service; to be worthy of (something due, either good or evil); to merit; to be entitled to; as, the laborer deserves his wages; a work of value deserves praise. God exacteth of thee less than thine iniquity deserveth. Job xi. 6. John
• DESERVEDLY
  According to desert ; justly.
• DESERVING
  Desert; merit. A person of great deservings from the republic. Swift.
• BARROW
  A heap of rubbish, attle, etc. (more info) mound; akin to G. berg mountain, Goth. bairgahei hill, hilly country, and perh. to Skr. b high, OIr. brigh mountain. Cf. Berg, Berry a 1. A large mound of earth or stones over the remains of the dead;
• PITIABLE
  Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness. Syn. -- Sorrowful; woeful; sad. See Piteous. -- Pit"i*a*ble*ness, n. -- Pit"i*a*bly, adv.
• BARROWIST
  A follower of Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism in England. Barrowe was executed for nonconformity in 1953.
• COMPASSIONATE
  1. Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate. South. 2. Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. Shak. Syn. -- Sympathizing; tender;
• COMPASSION
  Literally, suffering with another; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay. Syn. -- Pity; sympathy; commiseration; fellow-feeling;
• COMPASSIONATENESS
  The quality or state of being compassionate.
• COMPASSIONABLE
  Deserving compassion or pity; pitiable. Barrow.
• DESERVER
  One who deserves.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• HANDBARROW
  A frame or barrow, without a wheel, carried by hand.
• UNDESERVER
  One of no merit; one who is nor deserving or worthy. Shak.
• UNDESERVE
  To fail to deserve. Milton.
• WHEELBARROW
  A light vehicle for conveying small loads. It has two handles and one wheel, and is rolled by a single person.
• PROPITIABLE
  Capable of being propitiated.
• SEA BARROW
  A sea purse.
• INCOMPASSION
  Want of compassion or pity. Bp. Sanderson.