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caring

adjectiveverbnouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈkɛə.ɹɪŋ//
  • United States//ˈkɛɹ.ɪŋ//

Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.

adjective

  1. 1

    Kind, sensitive, or empathetic.

    She's a very caring person; she always has a kind word for everyone.

Etymology

From care + -ing. The adjective follows from the verb.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of carepresent participle and gerund of care

noun

  1. 1

    The act of one who cares.

    As I showed, although some rhetoricians, such as Mesmer and Erb, claimed that their interventions were medical treatments, others, such as Freud and Jung, claimed that their interventions were both medical curings and spiritual carings.

Forms

plural
carings
comparative
more caring
superlative
most caring
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