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Sympathetic

adjective

Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system. "Sympathetic stimulation"

Expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward. "A sympathetic observer" , "A sympathetic gesture" Antonym: unsympathetic.

Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity. Synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted. "Kindly criticism" , "A kindly act" , "Sympathetic words" , "A large-hearted mentor"

(of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings. Synonyms: appealing, likable, likeable. Antonym: unsympathetic.

Having similar disposition and tastes.

Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body. Synonym: harmonic.

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"Sympathetic" Quotes from Famous Books

... was another call to make, and passage homeward by steamer: Sterling strode along with me a good bit of road in the bright sunny evening, full of lively friendly talk, and altogether kind and amiable; and beautifully sympathetic with the loads he thought he saw on me, forgetful of his own. We shook hands on the road near the foot of Shooter's Hill:—at which point dim oblivious clouds rush down; and of small or great I remember nothing more in my history or ...

— The Life of John Sterling • Thomas Carlyle

... "What a very sympathetic sister you are!" he observed. "When you see me madly in love with a woman—a perfectly beautiful, adorable woman—you put yourself at once in the way and make out that my marriage with her will be a misery to you. You surely do not expect me to ...

— Ziska - The Problem of a Wicked Soul • Marie Corelli

... to be a general adviser, and smoked and listened with grave consideration, and the Unicorn thought his judgment was most sympathetic and sensible. ...

— The Lion and the Unicorn and Other Stories • Richard Harding Davis

... The Greeks were not sympathetic with children nor with the aged. Far from being anxious to preserve the life of the aged, their greatest trouble was in disposing of them. The honor and rights of women were not observed. In war women {212} ...

— History of Human Society • Frank W. Blackmar

... tide, Out of the mud drew creeping things, And, smiling on them, gave them radiant wings. Now when the poor Brook murmured, "Mother dear!" Dame Nature bent to hear, And the sad stream poured all its woes into her sympathetic ear, Crying,—"Oh, bounteous Mother! Do not do more for one child than another; If of a dirty grub or two (Dressing them up in royal blue) You make so many shining Demoiselles,[3] Change me as well; Uplift me also from this narrow place, Where life runs on at such ...

— Verses for Children - and Songs for Music • Juliana Horatia Ewing

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