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sympathetic
adjective
1 sympathetic
Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system.
Roget 888:
friendly;
amicable,
amical†;
well-affected,
unhostile†,
neighborly,
brotherly,
fraternal,
sympathetic,
harmonious,
hearty,
cordial,
warm-hearted.
friends with,
well with,
at home with,
hand in hand with;
on good terms,
on friendly terms,
on amicable terms,
on cordial terms,
on familiar terms,
on intimate terms,
on good footing;
on speaking terms,
on visiting terms;
in one's good graces,
in one's good books.
acquainted,
familiar,
intimate,
thick,
hand and glove,
hail fellow well met,
free and easy;
welcome.
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Roget 897:
loving
etc.
v.;
fond of;
taken with,
struck with;
smitten,
bitten;
attached to,
wedded to;
enamored;
charmed
etc.
v.;
in love;
love-sick;
over head and ears in love,
head over heels in love.
affectionate,
tender,
sweet upon,
sympathetic,
loving;
amorous,
amatory;
fond,
erotic,
uxorious,
ardent,
passionate,
rapturous,
devoted,
motherly.
loved
etc.
v..
beloved well beloved,
dearly beloved;
dear,
precious,
darling,
pet,
little;
favorite,
popular.
congenial;
after one's mind,
after one's taste,
after one's fancy,
after one's own heart,
to one's mind,
to one's taste,
to one's fancy,
to one's own heart.
in one's good graces
etc.
(friendly)
888;
dear as the apple of one's eye,
nearest to one's heart.
lovable,
adorable;
lovely,
sweet;
attractive,
seductive,
winning;
charming,
engaging,
interesting,
enchanting,
captivating,
fascinating,
bewitching;
amiable,
like an angel.
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Roget 914:
pitying
etc.
v.;
pitiful,
compassionate,
sympathetic,
touched.
merciful,
clement,
ruthful;
humane;
humanitarian
etc.
(philanthropic)
910;
tender,
tender hearted,
tender as a chicken;
soft,
soft hearted;
unhardened†;
lenient
etc.
740;
exorable†,
forbearing;
melting
etc.
v.;
weak.
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2 sympathetic
Expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward.
3 sympathetic
Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity:
— Sympathetic words.
synonyms: benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted.
Roget 906:
benevolent;
kind,
kindly;
well-meaning;
amiable;
obliging,
accommodating,
indulgent,
gracious,
complacent,
good-humored.
warm-hearted,
kind-hearted,
tender-hearted,
large-hearted,
broad-hearted;
merciful
etc.
914;
charitable,
beneficent,
humane,
benignant;
bounteous,
bountiful.
good-natured,
well-natured;
spleenless†;
sympathizing,
sympathetic;
complaisant
etc.
(courteous)
894;
well-meant,
well-intentioned.
fatherly,
motherly,
brotherly,
sisterly;
paternal,
maternal,
fraternal;
sororal†;
friendly
etc.
888.
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Polish: wspaniałomyślny, łaskawy, wielkoduszny
4 sympathetic
of characters in literature or drama Evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings:
— The sympathetic characters in the play.
synonyms: appealing, likable, likeable.
5 sympathetic
Having similar disposition and tastes.
6 sympathetic
Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body:
— Sympathetic vibration.
synonym: harmonic.
Moby thesaurus: Christian, Christlike, Christly, accordant, adductive, affectionate, affinitive, agreeable, agreeing, akin, allergic, alluring, amenable, amicable, anaphylactic, appertaining, associative, assuring, at one, attracting, attractive, attrahent, attuned, benign, benignant, bleeding, brotherly, charitable, cheering, clement, comforting, commiserative, comparable, comparative, compassionate, compatible, comprehending, concordant, condolatory, condolent, condoling, congenial, congruous, connective, consistent, consolatory, consoling, correlative, corresponding, decent, delicate, dragging, drawing, emotionable, empathetic, empathic, en rapport, encouraging, favorable, favorably disposed, forbearant, fraternal, frictionless, friendly, gentle, good, goosy, gracious, harmonious, heartening, hospitable, human, humane, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, impressionable, in accord, in concert, in rapport, in tune, inharmony, irritable, itchy, kind, kindhearted, kindly, kindly-disposed, lenient, like-minded, linking, loving, magnetic, magnetized, melting, merciful, nervous, nice, of good comfort, of one mind, open, open-minded, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, peaceful, pertaining, pertinent, pitying, pleasant, prickly, proportionable, proportional, proportionate, pulling, reassuring, receptive, referable, referring, refined, relating, relational, relative, relieving, responsive, ruthful, sensible, sensitive, sib, simpatico, skittish, soft, softhearted, supersensitive, supportive, susceptible, sympathizing, tactful, tender, tenderhearted, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, together, touchy, tugging, understanding, united, warm, warmhearted, well-disposed, well-intentioned, well-meaning ... show more.
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