Adjective: sympathetic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more sympathetic |
| Superlative | most sympathetic |
Sample Sentences
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John looked very upset. I gave him a sympathetic look.
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Vaublanc, in San Domingo so sympathetic to the sorrows of labour in France, had to fly from Paris in August, 1792, to escape the wrath of the French workers. [1963, C. L. R. James, The Black Jacobins, 2nd revised edition, page 14:]
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Sympathetic magic is based on imitation or correspondence.
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sympathetic ink
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One of his great enthusiasms was for a "sympathetic" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus. [1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 225:]
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Sympathetic innervation involves epinephrine.
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It was suggested that adrenaline might act at the junction of sympathetic nerves and the effector organs, and that adrenaline might be released at sympathetic nerve endings. [1967, Leslie L. Iversen, The Uptake and Storage of Noradrenaline in Sympathetic Nerves, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 23:]
Adjectives inflected like sympathetic
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
Mid 17th century in the sense “relating to an affinity or paranormal influence”, from Latin sympathēticus. By surface analysis, sympathy + -etic (“pertaining to”); compare pathetic. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwiende.
Verbs referencing "sympathetic"
Finnish Adjectives
sympaattinen.