English Explanatory Dictionary

sympathy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
  2. The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
  3. The ability to share the feelings of another.
  4. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
  5. Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
  6. Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
  7. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.
  8. Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.
  9. Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.

Pronunciation

/ˈsɪm.pəθ.i/ en-us-sympathy.ogg

Word forms

sympathy sympathies

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French sympathie, from Late Latin sympathīa (“feeling in common”), from Ancient Greek σῠμπᾰ́θειᾰ (sŭmpắtheiă, “fellow feeling”), from σῠμπᾰθής (sŭmpăthḗs, “affected by like feelings; exerting mutual influence, interacting”) + -ῐᾰ (-ĭă, “-y”, nominal suffix). Equivalent to sym- (“acting or considered together”) + -pathy (“feeling”).

Synonyms

compassion pity bowels commiseration empathy fellow feeling mercy remorse rue ruth sympathy tenderheartedness loving-kindness

Antonyms

apathy antipathy contempt dissympathy

Derived words

dissympathy himpathy mechanical sympathy nonsympathy powder of sympathy sympathetic sympathism sympathist sympathize sympathise sympatho- sympath- sympathy card sympathy is between shit and syphilis sympathy strike sympathy verdict unsympathy

Translations

Arabic: تَعَاطُف Arabic: عَطْف Arabic: حُنُو Armenian: համակրանք Bulgarian: съчувствие Bulgarian: състрадание Bulgarian: взаимно разбиране Catalan: compassió Catalan: simpatia Chinese Mandarin: 同情 Chinese Mandarin: 同感 Czech: soustrast Czech: soucit Danish: medfølelse Danish: deltagelse Danish: sympati Dutch: medelijden Dutch: sympathie Esperanto: kunsento Faroese: samkensla Finnish: myötätunto Finnish: osanotto Finnish: sympatia French: compassion French: sympathie French: condoléance German: Mitleid German: Mitgefühl German: Sympathie Greek: συμπάθεια Ancient Greek: συμπάθεια Hebrew: אהדה Hindi: सहानुभूति Hindi: संवेदना Hungarian: [1-2] együttérzés Hungarian: részvét Hungarian: [4] rokonszenv Hungarian: rokonszenv Icelandic: samúð Icelandic: samhygð Ido: simpatio Ido: kompato Ido: afineso Indonesian: simpati Interlingua: compassion Italian: compassione Japanese: 同情 Latin: compassio Malay: timbang rasa Malayalam: സഹതാപം Manx: co-ennaghtyn Manx: erreeish Manx: co-choe Māori: pukuaroha Norwegian Bokmål: sympati Norwegian Bokmål: medfølelse Norwegian Bokmål: medlidenhet Norwegian Nynorsk: sympati Norwegian Nynorsk: medkjensle Norwegian Nynorsk: medynk Old English: efnþrōwung Plautdietsch: Metfeelen Polish: współczucie Polish: sympatia Portuguese: compaixão Portuguese: afinidade Romanian: compasiune Romanian: compătimire Romanian: simpatie Russian: сочу́вствие Russian: сострада́ние Russian: симпа́тия Sanskrit: दया Serbo-Croatian: саосећај Serbo-Croatian: суосјећај Serbo-Croatian: saosećaj Serbo-Croatian: suosjećaj Spanish: compasión Spanish: afinidad
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