caring

adjective

car·ing ˈker-iŋ

: feeling or showing concern for or kindness to others

a kind, caring person

I waited expectantly for the sympathy to come pouring out, since Mary Anne is the most sensitive, caring person I know …—

Ann M. Martin

The Steve Martin character is consistently suave, gracious, tender, caring, worldly wise, and a great lover.—

Richard Alleva

caringly adverb

was treated gently and caringly

caringness noun

There's evidence every season that friendly decent social caringness isn't uncommon in the literary community. —

Benjamin DeMott

Examples of caring in a Sentence

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Tragically, that caring, thoughtful little girl died in November 2023 when a tree collapsed in the family's Boulder, Colo., backyard. —

Wendy Grossman Kantor, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024 Employees with children in the system will need ongoing support for their caring duties. —

Nancy Doyle, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024 Agape is less about passion and more about nurturing a stable, supportive, caring and respectful relationship. —

Mark Travers, Forbes, 26 Oct. 2024 While her life is immediately filled with caring, sympathetic friends (all played, quite charmingly, by Peter Francis James and Kate MacCluggage), someone new enters with that email from the other coast. —

Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for caring