compassionate
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adjective
1. Feeling or expressing pity: commiserative, condolatory, pitying, sympathetic. Archaic piteous, pitiful. See feelings, pity.
2. Concerned with human welfare and the alleviation of suffering: charitable, human, humane, humanitarian, merciful.
verb
To experience or express compassion: ache, commiserate, feel, pity, sympathize, yearn. Idioms: be sorry, have/take pity.
Synonyms: humane, compassionate, humanitarian, merciful
These adjectives mean marked or motivated by concern with the alleviation of suffering: a humane physician; compassionate toward impoverished people; released the prisoner for humanitarian reasons; is merciful to the repentant.
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conservative
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adjective
1. Strongly favoring retention of the existing order: orthodox, right, rightist, right-wing, Tory, traditionalist, traditionalistic.
2. Kept within sensible limits: discreet, moderate, reasonable, restrained, temperate. See plain/fancy, restraint/unrestraint.
3. Clinging to obsolete ideas: backward, reactionary, unprogressive.
4. Able to preserve: preservative, protective.
noun
One who strongly favors retention of the existing order: orthodox, rightist, right-winger, Tory, traditionalist.
Source: The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition and Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition by the Editors of the American Heritage