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.
- 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.
- 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.