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sympathetic Definition In English

0 used to describe someone who shows, especially by what they say, that they understand and care about someone else's suffering:
- She comes across as a more sympathetic character in the movie.
- She just needed someone who would lend a sympathetic ear to her (= listen to her in a kind and understanding way) once in a while.
- He suffers from back trouble too, so he was very sympathetic about my problem.
1 agreeing with or supporting:
- Did he give your proposal/complaints a sympathetic hearing?
- The party is considered to be sympathetic to/towards welfare reform.
2 showing, esp. by what you say, that you understand and care about someone’s problems or suffering:
- He suffers from back trouble too, so he was sympathetic.
3 showing your support and agreement:
- We are sympathetic to that point of view and have the same goals.

Even sympathetic observers concede that the duration of the adjustment and its social costs were greater than expected.
Their commitment to democratic inclusion should make them sympathetic to the challenges faced by social movements.
As the lowest of the low, he elicited in his readers both the pleasures of schadenfreude and sympathetic pity.
There is also an increase in sympathetic versus parasympathetic activity9 which predisposes to a greater degree of peripheral vasodilation.
In contrast, legitimate sympathetic candidates are at most singly opaque.
There are distinct, separately ranked sympathetic faithfulness constraints on these two correspondence relations.
The result, in this poor critic's mind, was confusion, difficulty of sympathetic identification with the performers, and cultural cognitive dissonance.
Prior to the 1950s, conservation groups relied on sympathetic federal agency officials to secure scenic areas for preservation and to limit development.