Sympathetic

Word SYMPATHETIC
Character 11
Hyphenation sym pa thet ic
Pronunciations /ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk/

Definitions and meanings of "Sympathetic"

What do we mean by sympathetic?

Of, expressing, feeling, or resulting from sympathy. adjective

Favorably inclined. adjective

Agreeably suited to one's disposition or mood; congenial. adjective

Of, relating to, or acting on the sympathetic nervous system. adjective

Relating to or being vibrations, especially musical tones, produced in one body by energy from a nearby vibrating body and having the same frequency as the vibration of the nearby body. adjective

Emitting such vibrations. adjective

Pertaining to, expressive of, proceeding from, or exhibiting sympathy, in any sense; attended with sympathy.

Having sympathy or common feeling with another; susceptible of being affected by feelings like those of another, or of altruistic feelings which arise as a consequence of what another feels.

Harmonious; concordant; congenial.

In anatomy and zoology, effecting a sympathy or consentaneous affection of the viscera and blood-vessels; uniting viscera and blood-vessels in a nervous action common to them all; inhibitory of or controlling the vital activities of viscera and blood-vessels, which are thereby subjected to a common nervous influence; specifically, of or pertaining to a special set of nerves or nervous system called the sympathetic. See below.

In acoustics, noting sounds induced not by a direct vibration-producing force, but by vibrations conveyed through the air or other medium from a body already in vibration. The phenomena of resonance are properly examples of sympathetic sound.

Of four pairs of cranial ganglia;

Of three great gangliated plexuses or sympathetic plexuses, in the thoracic, abdominal, and pelvic cavities respectively;

Of smaller ganglia in connection with the abdominal and other viscera;

Of communicating nerves or commissures, whereby these ganglia or plexuses are connected with one another and with nerves of the cerebrospinal system;

Of distributory nerves supplying the viscera and vessels, whereby the sympathetic reaches all parts of the body. See ganglion and plexus.

In invertebrates, as Vermes, a posterior part of the visceral nervous system, passing on to the enteric tube, and corresponding to a true enteric nervous system: so called in view of its physiological relations, without reference to the actual homology implied with the sympathetic system of a vertebrate.

The sympathetic nervous system, or the sympathetic nerve. noun

One who is peculiarly susceptible, as to hypnotic or mesmeric influences; a sensitive. noun

Of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy

Relating to similarity

Relating to the sympathetic nervous system

Relating to sounds induced by vibrations conveyed through a fluid or gas from a body already in vibration.

Of magic, a supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence.

Synonyms and Antonyms for Sympathetic

The word "sympathetic" in example sentences

A biographer should be sympathetic; not blind, not indulgent, but _sympathetic_. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

Fandral, his expression sympathetic, interjected, You are weary, Hamuul, and I have been remiss in my treatment of you. ❋ Richard A. Knaak (2010)

The suit glanced over, his expression sympathetic. ❋ Patrick A. Davis (2006)

Sometimes, when you do render safe procedure like this and use a disruptor, sometimes there will be what they call a sympathetic detonation, where if it was a real bomb, sometimes it will go ahead and, you know, set that off. ❋ Unknown (2005)

And sometimes you would get what they call a sympathetic detonation. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Todd Thomas faulted the press for what he described as a sympathetic portrayal of Becker. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The transference of a vibration from one violin to another is called a sympathetic resonance, and it is possible only if both instruments are tuned. ❋ PhD Bradford Keeney (2010)

Healy adopted an expression of sympathetic disbelief. ❋ Gerard O’Donovan (2011)

The character I find most sympathetic is the president of Harvard, Lawrence Summers, onetime Clinton's treasury secretary and a rather dubious figure in some ways. ❋ Philip French (2010)

Namely, that judges on this circuit are not following the law (perhaps in sympathetic cases?) and then, perhaps, time permitting, explaining how and perhaps speculating as towhy. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I remain sympathetic to her lack of knowledge of her husband's false POW claims and and place responsibility on his failure to have truthfully and fully informed her of his military background prior to their fairly-recent marriage. ❋ Unknown (2010)

One of the reasons that I have been sympathetic is the lack of leadership on the Palestinian side strong enough to negotiate with. ❋ Unknown (2010)

What makes them so sympathetic is their self-awareness of both inclinations and the belief that the contradiction makes them faintly ludicrous. ❋ Unknown (2008)

While it might be tempting for a writer to portray such a Dad as a one-dimensional, bullying ogre, Baillie treats him as a conflicted man, who, while not quite sympathetic, is quite human. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Be that as it may, one can look back to classic sci-fi authors like Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Philip José Farmer and Michael Moorcock, and find they explored these issues in sympathetic and not-so-sympathetic ways, long before it became so popular in our time to include reference to God, so that we find Battlestar Galactica, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles, and Heroes adding a sprinkled dose of religion and God-talk each week. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I can forget, now, how frustrated I was; I can forget how I winced in sympathetic discomfort as she rubbed her face furiously with her (mercifully plush) toy frog, I can forget how tears pricked my eyes when she woke in the night, moaning and whimpering, squirming in her itchy condition. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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