CARING
caring
(adjective) feeling and exhibiting concern and empathy for others; “caring friends”
lovingness, caring
(noun) a loving feeling
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Adjective
caring (comparative more caring, superlative most caring)
(of a person) Kind, sensitive, empathetic.
Verb
caring
present participle of care
Noun
caring (plural carings)
The act of one who cares.
Anagrams
• Crigan, GarÄŤin, arcing, racing
Source: Wiktionary
CARE
Care, n. Etym: [AS. caru, cearu; akin to OS. kara sorrow Goth. kara
lament, and to Gr. . Not akin to cure. Cf. Chary.]
1. A burdensome sense of responsibility; trouble caused by onerous
duties; anxiety; concern; solicitude.
Care keeps his wath in every old man's eye, And where care lodges,
sleep will never lie. Shak.
2. Charge, oversight, or management, implying responsibility for
safety and prosperity.
The care of all the churches. 2 Car. xi. 28
Him thy care must be to find. Milton.
Perlexed with a thousand cares. Shak.
3. Attention or heed; caution; regard; heedfulness; watchfulness; as,
take care; have a care.
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. Shak.
4. The object of watchful attention or anxiety.
Right sorrowfully mourning her bereaved cares. Spenser.
Syn.
– Anxiety; solicitude; concern; caution; regard; management;
direction; oversight.
– Care, Anxiety, Solicitude, Concern. These words express mental
pain in different degress. Care belongs primarily to the intellect,
and becomes painful from overburdened thought. Anxiety denotes a
state of distressing uneasiness fron the dread of evil. Solicitude
expresses the same feeling in a diminished dagree. Concern is opposed
to indifference, and implies exercise of anxious thought more or less
intense. We are careful about the means, solicitous and anxious about
the end; we are solicitous to obtain a good, axious to avoid an evil.
Care, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Cared; p. pr. & vb. n. Caring.] Etym: [AS.
cearian. See Care, n.]
Definition: To be anxious or solictous; to be concerned; to have regard or
interest; -- sometimes followed by an objective of measure.
I would not care a pin, if the other three were in. Shak.
Master, carest thou not that we perish Mark. iv. 38.
To care for. (a) To have under watchful attention; to take care of.
(b) To have regard or affection for; to like or love.
He cared not for the affection of the house. Tennyson.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition