English Explanatory Dictionary

sympathetic

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
  2. Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.
  3. Attracting the liking of others. (of a person)
  4. Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.
  5. Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.
  6. A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. (of magic)
  7. Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.
  8. 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.
noun
  1. A sympathetic nerve.

Pronunciation

/ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/ En-us-sympathetic.ogg

Word forms

sympathetic more sympathetic most sympathetic sympathetick sympathetical sympathetics

Etymology

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.

Synonyms

approving

Antonyms

unsympathetic parasympathetic

Related words

sympathico-

Derived words

antisympathetic cardiosympathetic himpathetic neurosympathetic nonsympathetic oculosympathetic orthosympathetic oversympathetic parasympathetic perisympathetic presympathetic reflex sympathetic dystrophy somatosympathetic sympathetically sympathetic chain sympathetic detonation sympathetic hyperactivity sympathetic ink sympatheticism sympathetic magic sympathetic nervous system sympatheticness sympatheticolytic sympathetic powder sympathetic string sympathetic trunk sympathetic vibration sympathin sympatho- sympath- sympitar unsympathetic vagosympathetic vestibulosympathetic

Translations

Bulgarian: съчувствен Bulgarian: състрадателен Bulgarian: симпатичен Catalan: simpàtic Chinese Mandarin: 同情的 Dutch: sympathiek Finnish: myötätuntoinen French: sympathique German: mitfühlend Ancient Greek: συμπαθής Hungarian: együttérző Hungarian: rokonszenvező Hungarian: szimpatikus Hungarian: rokonszenves Hungarian: megnyerő Irish: báúil Irish: cásmhar Irish: comhbhách Irish: comhbhraiteach Irish: comhghoilliúnach Irish: páirteach Irish: taobhaitheach Italian: sensibile Northern Kurdish: sîmpasawî Latin: misericors Manx: co-ennaghtagh Manx: erreeishagh Māori: pukuaroha Māori: pūaroha Norwegian Bokmål: sympatisk Old English: efnþrōwiende Polish: współczujący Portuguese: simpático Russian: сочувствующий Spanish: simpatético Spanish: simpatizador Spanish: simpático Swedish: sympatisk Unami: kwëtamàlsi Yiddish: סימפּאַטיש Esperanto: simpatia Turkish: simpatik Turkish: sevimli Turkish: şirin
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