1 connected with a charity or charities:
a charitable institution / foundation / trust * a charitable donation / gift * (BrE) to have charitable status (= to be an official charity)
2 helping people who are poor or in need:
His later years were devoted largely to charitable work.
3 kind in your attitude to other people, especially when you are judging them:
Let's be charitable and assume she just made a mistake.
OPPUNCHARITABLE
charitably adverb:
Try to think about him a little more charitably.
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Is charitable a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, charitable is tagged as adjective.
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