compassionateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音, adjective) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpæʃənət/
• (英国発音, verb) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpæʃəneɪt/

形容詞

compassionate (comparative more compassionate, superlative most compassionate)

1. Having, feeling or showing compassion (to または toward someone).

   Synonyms: empathetic, sympathetic, ruthful

   The Compassionate, the All-Compassionate

   (names given to God in Islam)

   • 1611, John Donne, An Anatomy of the World, London: Samuel Macham,^[1]

     As a compassionate Turcoyse which doth tell

     By looking pale, the wearer is not well,

   • 1675, Robert South, A Sermon preached at Christ-Church, in Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, London: Thomas Bennett, 1692, p. 574,^[2]

     […] there never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender, and compassionate.

   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 49, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, OCLC 558196156, page 502:

     He was by nature so exceedingly compassionate of anyone who seemed to be ill at ease […] that he shook hands with Mr. Micawber, at least half-a-dozen times in five minutes.

   • 2007, Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, Orlando: Harcourt, Chapter 7, p. 99,^[3]

     […] the compassionate pangs I felt for soon-to-be redundant workers were not overwhelming in their frequency; our job required a degree of commitment that left one with rather limited time for such distractions.

2. Given to someone as an exception because of a family emergency or a death in their family.

   compassionate leave; a compassionate visa

3. (obsolete) Inviting or asking for pity.

   Synonym: pitiable

   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance), William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act I, scene 3]:

     It boots thee not to be compassionate:

     After our sentence plaining comes too late.

派生語

• compassionately
• compassionateness
• uncompassionate

動詞

compassionate (三人称単数 現在形 compassionates, 現在分詞 compassionating, 過去形および過去分詞形 compassionated)

1. (transitive, archaic) To feel compassion (for someone または with regard to something); to regard (someone または something) with compassion.

   Synonyms: pity, feel sorry for

   • 1602, Thomas Lodge (translator), The Famous and Memorable Workes of Josephus, London: G. Bishop et al., Chapter 6, p. 733,^[4]

     […] seeing them die so wofully in the flames, he compassionated them.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, chapter 6, in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar […], OCLC 928184292, book 2, page 83:

     The Justice which Mr. Allworthy had executed on Partridge, at first met with universal Approbation; but no sooner had he felt its Consequences, than his Neighbours began to relent, and to compassionate his Case;

   • 1794, William Godwin, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams, London: B. Crosby, Volume 2, Chapter 1, p. 4,^[5]

     And yet I could not help bitterly compassionating the honest fellow, brought to the gallows, as he was, strictly speaking, by the machinations of that devil incarnate, Mr. Tyrrel.

   • 1847 October 16, Currer Bell [pseudonym; Charlotte Brontë], chapter 3, in Jane Eyre. An Autobiography. […], volume (please specify |volume=I, II, または III), London: Smith, Elder, and Co., […], OCLC 3163777, page 38:

     “ […] if she were a nice, pretty child, one might compassionate her forlornness; but one really cannot care for such a little toad as that.”

   • 1848 November – 1850 December​, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 16, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I または II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], OCLC 2057953:

     Helen laughed at these sentimental remarks, and wondered that Madame herself did not compassionate her lodger, and console him

   • 1855, Frederick Douglass, chapter 17, in My Bondage and My Freedom, New York: Miller, Orton and Mulligan, page 236:

     I explained the circumstances of the past two days, which had driven me to the woods, and he deeply compassionated my distress.