| 单词 | charitable |
| 释义 | charitable (once / 625 pages) adj Something that's charitable has to do with helping people who need assistance. A charitable act might include volunteering at a soup kitchen or homeless shelter. A charitable donation is money you give to an organization that helps needy people — and the organization itself is also charitable. You can also use the word to describe, more generally, someone who's kind and generous, or the quality of giving people the benefit of the doubt: "He always had such a charitable opinions of me." Charitable comes from charity, from the Old French charité, "mercy or compassion." WORD FAMILYcharitable: charitableness, charitablest, charitably, uncharitable+/charity: charitable, charities/uncharitable: uncharitably USAGE EXAMPLESBeamer says the former player’s work with The Carpenter House and other charitable organizations to help those in need “truly embodied the Virginia Tech spirit.” Washington Times(Dec 29, 2016) The charitable ethics and sense of entitlement of the next president are well-known by now. Salon(Dec 28, 2016) The Rockefeller family’s charitable attachment to the climate cause is understandable, though. Wall Street Journal(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj relating to or characterized by charity a charitable foundation 2adj showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity was charitable in his opinions of others Syn benevolent, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, sympathetic kind having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior 3adj full of love and generosity charitable to the poor a charitable trust Syn|Ant beneficent, benevolent, eleemosynary, philanthropic generous in assistance to the poor generouswilling to give and share unstintingly uncharitable lacking love and generosity stingy, ungenerousunwilling to spend meanspirited, ungenerouslacking in magnanimity |
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