What is another word for sympathetic?
Synonyms for sympathetic
ˌsɪm pəˈθɛt ɪksym·pa·thet·ic
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Wiktionary
sympatheticadjective
Antonyms:
unsympatheticsympatheticadjective
Antonyms:
unsympathetic
English Synonyms and Antonyms
sympathetic
Human denotes what pertains to mankind, with no suggestion as to its being good or evil; as, the human race; human qualities; we speak of human achievements, virtues, or excellences, human follies, vices, or crimes. Humane denotes what may rightly be expected of mankind at its best in the treatment of sentient beings; a humane enterprise or endeavor is one that is intended to prevent or relieve suffering. The humane man will not needlessly inflict pain upon the meanest thing that lives; a merciful man is disposed to withhold or mitigate the suffering even of the guilty. The compassionate man sympathizes with and desires to relieve actual suffering, while one who is humane would forestall and prevent the suffering which he sees to be possible. Compare MERCY; PITIFUL; PITY.
See synonyms for BARBAROUS.
Synonyms:
benevolent, benignant, charitable, clement, compassionate, forgiving, gentle, gracious, human, humane, kind, kind-hearted, merciful, pitying, tender, tender-hearted
Princeton's WordNet
sympatheticadjective
of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system
"sympathetic neurons"; "sympathetic stimulation"
Synonyms:
kindly, benevolent, likable, likeable, good-hearted, harmonic, large-hearted, charitable, appealing, openheartedAntonyms:
unsympathising, unsympathetic, inharmonious, unharmonious, unlikeable, dissimilar, unlikable, unappealing, unsympathizing, unkindsympatheticadjective
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"
Synonyms:
kindly, benevolent, likable, likeable, good-hearted, harmonic, large-hearted, charitable, appealing, openheartedAntonyms:
unsympathizing, unlikable, unsympathetic, dissimilar, unharmonious, inharmonious, unappealing, unlikeable, unsympathising, unkindcharitable, benevolent, kindly, sympathetic, good-hearted, openhearted, large-heartedadjective
showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
"was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words"; "a large-hearted mentor"
Synonyms:
kindly, philanthropic, benevolent, beneficent, likeable, good-hearted, harmonic, large-hearted, likable, charitable, freehearted, appealing, openhearted, eleemosynaryAntonyms:
unlikeable, inharmonious, unsympathetic, dissimilar, unharmonious, unkind, unlikable, unsympathizing, unappealing, unsympathisingsympathetic, appealing, likeable, likableadjective
(of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings
"the sympathetic characters in the play"
Synonyms:
kindly, benevolent, likable, likeable, good-hearted, harmonic, large-hearted, charitable, appealing, openheartedAntonyms:
unsympathetic, unharmonious, unlikeable, inharmonious, unlikable, dissimilar, unappealing, unsympathising, unkind, unsympathizingsympatheticadjective
having similar disposition and tastes
"with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion"
Synonyms:
kindly, benevolent, likable, likeable, good-hearted, harmonic, large-hearted, charitable, appealing, openheartedAntonyms:
unsympathetic, unharmonious, unsympathising, inharmonious, unappealing, unsympathizing, unlikeable, dissimilar, unkind, unlikableharmonic, sympatheticadjective
relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body
"sympathetic vibration"
Synonyms:
kindly, likeable, benevolent, likable, harmonised, harmonical, good-hearted, harmonic, large-hearted, harmonized, charitable, appealing, openhearted, consonantAntonyms:
unsympathetic, dissimilar, unsympathizing, unkind, inharmonious, unappealing, unharmonious, unlikeable, unlikable, unsympathising
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
sympatheticadjective
Synonyms:
compassionate, sympathizing, commiserating, pitiful, tender, kind, affectionate, loving, with the heart in the right place
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
sympatheticadjective
Synonyms:
compassionate, commiserating, pitiful, kind, tender
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "sympathetic":
compassionate, likable, likeable, congenial, sympathy, benevolent, friendly, sociable, nice, favourable, endearing, pleasant
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#481 | human | |
#1139 | kind | |
#1157 | nice | |
#1254 | friendly | |
#5538 | pleasant | |
#6740 | tender | |
#8075 | gentle | |
#8928 | charitable | |
#9861 | sympathy | |
#12615 | appealing | |
#13039 | kindly | |
#15979 | humane | |
#16169 | harmonic | |
#16921 | sympathetic | |
#17957 | clement | |
#18987 | compassionate | |
#19183 | favourable | |
#20167 | gracious | |
#28923 | benevolent | |
#31395 | forgiving | |
#31594 | merciful | |
#32091 | philanthropic | |
#35424 | consonant | |
#38045 | harmonized | |
#43261 | endearing | |
#50022 | likable | |
#51501 | likeable | |
#52005 | sociable | |
#52535 | harmonised | |
#58985 | congenial | |
#78321 | beneficent | |
#93618 | pitying | |
#297352 | benignant | |
#311525 | eleemosynary |
How to use sympathetic in a sentence?
In our hyperstimulated society, we are bombarded with artificial light, TV, social media... and it has a physiological impact manifesting as sympathetic activation.
Barack Obama is the president of the United States and he couldn't say, 'Hey, these are Islamic jihadists. I just got informed of this by the FBI.' Instead he lies, he comes out and lies because we all know this information was out there, but he didn't want to insult the faith that I believe he is secretly following, a follower, or he is simply sympathetic because they're doing the dirty work. Because he ultimately wants to see this country punished and taken down for what he considers to be crimes against the rest of the world.
The four liberal justices are the justices most likely to be sympathetic to Puerto Rico’s arguments.
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
He's engaging in very deft diplomacy in which first of all he makes clear that he's in Israel's corner, he's got Netanyahu's back, Israel has a right to defend itself, he establishes his credentials as sympathetic to Israel and supportive of Israel and its right to defend itself so that when it comes time to turn to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and say, you know,' It's time to wrap it up,' he has credibility. And when he does that, he'll do it in private.
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