1) Car 2) Caring 3) Commiserate 4) Helpful 5) Humane 6) Kind 7) Loving 8) Merciful 9) Nurturant 10) Pitying 11) Tenderhearted 12) Understanding 13) Warmhearted 1) Easy-going 2) Forgiving 3) Generous 4) Gracious 5) Indulgent 6) Kind 7) Kind-hearted 8) Lenient 9) Light 10) Merciful 11) Moderate 12) Relaxed 13) Share the suffering of 14) Showing or having compassion 15) Soft 16) Sympathetic 17) To feel compassion for 18) To pity, feel sorry for 
• (a.) Complaining; inviting pity; pitiable. • (a.) Having a temper or disposition to pity; sympathetic; merciful. • (v. t.) To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.
Com·pas'sion·ate adjective 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. [ R.] Shak...
Compassionate is slang for compassionate leave.
[adj] - showing merciful compassion 2. [adj] - showing recognition of unusually distressful circumstances 3. [adj] - showing or having compassion
compassionate 1. Feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic, kindhearted, pitying. 2. Affected with, characterized by, or expressing compassion; pitiful, sympathetic.
adjective showing merciful compassion; `sparing the child`s mother was a compassionate act`