sympathetic

Meanings

Plural: sympathetics

Adjective

• of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system
  • "sympathetic neurons"
  • "sympathetic stimulation"
• expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward
  • "sympathetic to the students' cause"
  • "a sympathetic observer"
  • "a sympathetic gesture"
• (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings
  • "the sympathetic characters in the play"

Adjective Satellite

• showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
  • "sympathetic words"
• having similar disposition and tastes
  • "with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion"
• relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body
  • "sympathetic vibration"

Adj

• Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
• 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)
• Attracting the liking of others. (of a person)
• Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.
• 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)
• Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.
• Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.
• Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.
• 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

• A sympathetic nerve.

Synonyms

appealing, approving, benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, harmonic, kindly, large-hearted, likable, likeable, openhearted

Antonyms

parasympathetic, unsympathetic

Related Words

sympathico-

Anagrams of sympathetic