sympathetic
IPA: sɪmpʌθˈɛtɪk
adjective
- Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
- Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.
- Attracting the liking of others. (of a person)
- (construction) Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.
- (relational) Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.
- A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. (of magic)
- (sound) Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.
- (neuroanatomy, neurology, 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.
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Examples of "sympathetic" in Sentences
- The story is sympathetic to the rioters.
- He is not sympathetic to the cause of the North.
- The suit glanced over, his expression sympathetic.
- I'm a lot more sympathetic to the expediency argument.
- He heard the proposal and felt sympathetic to the idea.
- I was sympathetic to the patron but supported the curator.
- Fortunately, the public is sympathetic and forgives the girls.
- He is older and one of the more sympathetic characters in the movie.
- And sometimes you would get what they call a sympathetic detonation.
- Crisp was not sympathetic to the Gay Liberation movement of the time.
- It was sympathetic, winning, insistent, pleading, the acme of exhortation.
- For the most part, it is just a mixture of sympathetic magic and vitalism.
- A biographer should be sympathetic; not blind, not indulgent, but _sympathetic_.
- Todd Thomas faulted the press for what he described as a sympathetic portrayal of Becker.
- Fandral, his expression sympathetic, interjected, You are weary, Hamuul, and I have been remiss in my treatment of you.
- The transference of a vibration from one violin to another is called a sympathetic resonance, and it is possible only if both instruments are tuned.
- The character I find most sympathetic is the president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, onetime Clinton's treasury secretary and a rather dubious figure in some ways.
- Sometimes, when you do render safe procedure like this and use a disruptor, sometimes there will be what they call a sympathetic detonation, where if it was a real bomb, sometimes it will go ahead and, you know, set that off.
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