Synonyms of the word

compassionate

• adj. Having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.
• adj. Of a leave, given to someone because of a domestic emergency.
• adj. (obsolete) Inviting pity; pitiable.
• v. (archaic) To feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.

caring

• adj. (of a person) Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
• v. present participle of care.
• n. The act of one who cares.

grieve

• v. (transitive) To cause sorrow or distress to.
• v. (transitive) To feel very sad about; to mourn; to sorrow for.
• v. (intransitive) To experience grief.
• v. (transitive, archaic) To harm.
• v. (transitive) To submit or file a grievance.
• n. (obsolete) A governor of a town or province.
• n. (chiefly Scotland) A manager or steward, e.g. of a farm.

humane

• adj. Having or showing concern for the pain or suffering of another; compassionate.
• adj. Pertaining to branches of learning concerned with human affairs or the humanities, especially classical…
• adj. Obsolete spelling of human.

merciful

• adj. showing mercy.

nurturant

• adj. (psychology) That provides nourishment; nurturing.
• n. That which nurtures; a nurturing factor or influence.

pity

• n. (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
• n. (countable) Something regrettable.
• n. (obsolete) Piety.
• v. (transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something).
• v. (transitive, now regional) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.
• interj. Short form of what a pity.

pitying

• v. present participle of pity.
• n. The act of one who pities.

sorrow

• n. (uncountable) unhappiness, woe.
• n. (countable) (usually in plural) An instance or cause of unhappiness.
• v. (intransitive) To feel or express grief.
• v. (transitive) To feel grief over; to mourn, regret.

sorry

• adj. (of a person) Regretful for an action; grieved or saddened, especially by the loss of something or someone.
• adj. Poor, sad or regrettable.
• interj. Expresses regret, remorse, or sorrow.
• interj. Used as a request for someone to repeat something not heard or understood clearly.
• interj. Used to correct oneself in speech.
• n. The act of saying sorry; an apology.

sympathetic

• adj. Of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
• adj. Of or relating to similarity.
• adj. Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system.

tenderhearted

• adj. compassionate for another's distress.
• adj. easily moved to love.