Meaning

8 senses
  1. Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.

    John looked very upset. I gave him a sympathetic look.

    mitfühlend

    сочувствующийsočuvstvujuščij

    showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity

  2. Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.

    Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.

  3. Attracting the liking of others. (of a person)

  4. Attracting the liking of others. (of a person)

    Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.

  5. (relational)Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.

    Sympathetic magic is based on imitation or correspondence.

    sympathetic ink

  6. Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.

    (relational)A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. (of magic)

  7. (relational)Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.

    of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system

  8. (relational)Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves.

    Sympathetic innervation involves epinephrine.

Examples

236 sentences
  1. I thought you'd be more sympathetic.

    Я думав, ти виявиш більше співчуття.

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  2. Do you think Tom is sympathetic?

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  3. Tom is quite sympathetic, isn't he?

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  4. Tom is very sympathetic, isn't he?

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  5. Tom is such a sympathetic listener.

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Translations

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Русский
By meaning 1
of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy:

Origin

Mid 17th century in the sense “relating to an affinity or paranormal influence”, from Lati

Mid 17th century in the sense “relating to an affinity or paranormal influence”, from Latin sympathēticus. By surface analysis, sympathy + -etic (“pertaining to”); compare pathetic. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwiende.

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Forms

more sympathetic, most sympathetic
Comparativemore sympathetic Lesson
Superlativemost sympathetic Lesson

regular

Synonyms

11 synonyms
Close in meaning

Antonyms

2 antonyms

Word family

30 related words

Collocations

4 patterns
  • would be sympathetic
  • will be sympathetic
  • is very sympathetic
  • to be sympathetic

See also

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