Adjective: empathic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more empathic |
| Superlative | most empathic |
Sample Sentences
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Be fair to people: even those who manage to be empathic can't be telepathic. They're only human — they can't read your mind.
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Be fair to people: not everyone can be empathic, like Cathy is. Her gift is rare.
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Near-synonyms: telempathic, telepathic
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I didn't know he was empathic until I realized that he had evidently read my mind with his cyborg implant.
Adjectives inflected like empathic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. English empathy
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ikos
4. Proto-Italic *-ikos
5. Latin -icuslbor.
6. Old French -iquebor.
7. Middle English -ik
8. English -ic
9. English empathic
10. From empathy + -ic.
Verbs referencing "empathic"
Finnish Adjectives
empaattinen.