Compassionate vs Null - What's the difference?
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Having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.
* South
Of a leave, given to someone because of a domestic emergency.
(obsolete) Inviting pity; pitiable.
(archaic) To feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=William Godwin, title=Caleb Williams, chapter=, edition=
, passage=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. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1895, author=J. Sheridan Le Fanu, title=The Evil Guest, chapter=, edition=
, passage=The good Mrs. Mervyn accompanied these words with looks so sly, and emphasis so significant, that Rhoda was fain to look down, to hide her blushes; and compassionating the confusion she herself had caused, the kind old lady led her to the chamber which was henceforward, so long as she consented to remain, to be her own apartment. }}
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 50:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As an adjective compassionate
is having, feeling or showing compassion; sympathetic.As a verb compassionate
is (archaic) to feel compassion for; to pity, feel sorry for.As a noun null is
zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.compassionate
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate .
- compassionate leave
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* ruthfulVerb
(compassionat)citation
citation
- 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 [...].
null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.