charitable
generous in donations or gifts to relieve the needs of indigent, ill, or helpless people, or of animals: a charitable man giving much money to feed people experiencing food insecurity.
kindly or lenient in judging people, acts, etc.: charitable in his opinions of others.
relating to or concerned with charity: a charitable institution.
Origin of charitable
1synonym study For charitable
Other words for charitable
Opposites for charitable
Other words from charitable
- char·i·ta·ble·ness, noun
- char·i·ta·bly, adverb
- non·char·i·ta·ble, adjective
- non·char·i·ta·ble·ness, noun
- non·char·i·ta·bly, adverb
- o·ver·char·i·ta·ble, adjective
- o·ver·char·i·ta·ble·ness, noun
- o·ver·char·i·ta·bly, adverb
- pseu·do·char·i·ta·ble, adjective
- pseu·do·char·i·ta·bly, adverb
- qua·si-char·i·ta·ble, adjective
- qua·si-char·i·ta·bly, adverb
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How to use charitable in a sentence
Let us not overlook that charitableness towards George Sand implies uncharitableness towards Chopin, place.
Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician | Frederick NiecksIt is surprising how this habit enlarges the vision and gives a charitableness to speech which might otherwise be absent.
Talks on Talking | Grenville KleiserFor thus feeling and thus speaking this writer has the charitableness and the decency to call me "Mawworm."
Apologia pro Vita Sua | John Henry NewmanFathers have their own opinions of sons, which opinions range, I dare say, all the way from charitableness to desperation.
On the Stairs | Henry B. FullerIn the case of my own son, I am glad to say, a very slight degree of charitableness was all the tax laid upon me.
On the Stairs | Henry B. Fuller
British Dictionary definitions for charitable
/ (ˈtʃærɪtəbəl) /
generous in giving to the needy
kind or lenient in one's attitude towards others
concerned with or involving charity
Derived forms of charitable
- charitableness, noun
- charitably, adverb
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