Betekenis van sympathy In het Nederlands

• 0 (an expression of) understanding and care for someone else's suffering:

  • The president has sent a message of sympathy to the relatives of the dead soldiers.

  • I don't have much sympathy for her - I think she's brought her troubles on herself.

  • I went along to the funeral in order to offer my sympathies.

• 1 support and agreement:

  • I must confess I have some sympathy with his views.

  • Of those people questioned, 93 percent said their sympathies were with the teachers.

  • He is known to have right-wing sympathies.

  • The railway workers came out in sympathy with the miners.

• 2 a feeling or expression of understanding and caring for someone else who is suffering or has problems that have caused unhappiness:

  • When Robert died, I sent a letter of sympathy to his wife.

• 3 a feeling or expression of support and agreement:

  • She tends to be in sympathy with the left wing of the party.

  • [ pl ] On the subject of wilderness, her sympathies were clearly pro-environmental.

• 4 the act of showing understanding for someone or for a particular situation:

  • sympathy for sb The prime minister expressed his sympathy for those injured in the attacks.

  • have great/little/no sympathy for sth Locals have little sympathy for the chemical company following the toxic waste disaster.

• 5 to stop working in order to show your support for a group of workers who are on strike :

  • The airline's ground staff walked out in sympathy with catering contractors.

• 6 if prices on a market rise or go down in sympathy with others, they do this as a result of the others rising or going down:

  • Gilts advanced 23p in sympathy with the overnight rise in US treasury bonds.