Definition: 1. Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system. 2. Expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward. 3. Having similar disposition and tastes. 4. Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity.
Use 'sympathetic' in a sentence:
1. Tourists are, in the main, sympathetic people.
2. To truly be sympathetic, you must be able to see beyond your own pain to be witness to the pain.
3. I mouthed some sympathetic platitudes.
4. Build her up with kindness and a sympathetic ear.
5. Because you're the sort of person people tell their problems and secrets to, because you're sympathetic and give them hope.
6. Mars is this sort of human, flabby torso—it's sympathetic, but it's a different portrayal of wars.
7. His speeches against corruption may find a sympathetic hearing among some Trinidadians.
8. I don't find her a very sympathetic person.
9. It may be that he sees you only as a sympathetic friend.
10. Thomson gave a queer, sympathetic look, then ran out of the room.
11. She sounds a most sympathetic character.
12. This teaches them to be understanding of and sympathetic towards others—qualities sure to take them a long way in life.
13. Toning down a jumpy sympathetic nervous system will encourage a balanced sleep/wake cycle in perimenopausal women.
14. She did not feel very sympathetic.
15. What would cause the masses to give him a far more sympathetic ear?
16. On the one side, you have the United States government's mighty legal and security apparatus fighting for data of the most sympathetic sort: the secrets buried in a dead mass murderer's phone.
17. My best course of action was to help Gill by being sympathetic.
18. She was very sympathetic when my mother died.
19. Long-living women are also more likely to be sympathetic and cooperative than women with a normal life span.
20. You have to be firm, but at the same time you should try and be sympathetic.
21. He came over as a sympathetic person.
22. We would think that Milton's contemporaries might be aghast that such a sympathetic portrait of Satan could be used at the beginning of the poem.
23. Sleeping on your left side may have a negative effect on sympathetic nervous activity.
24. I hope you will give sympathetic consideration to my situation.
25. I did not feel at all sympathetic towards Kate.
26. I'll offer her a sympathetic ear if she needs to talk.
27. He was sympathetic, but powerless to help.
28. He has a kind [ good, soft, sympathetic] heart.
29. Huston had assembled a remarkably cohesive and sympathetic cast.
30. Tomorrow hundreds of thousands of people will line the route to cheer and to gasp in sympathetic participation.
31. It's not very sympathetic to spoil everyone's enjoyment as you're doing now.
32. Russian newspapers are largely sympathetic to the president.
33. If you can be a sympathetic listener, it may put your own problems in perspective.
34. Most were sympathetic once we pricked their consciences.
35. The guilt-prone ones shared more, even though they hadn't magically become more sympathetic to the other child's deprivation.
36. The doctors are not entirely sympathetic, "If there was a surgery to enlarge brains, we would offer him a free trial," they quip.
37. I'd be sympathetic if the union focused solely on higher compensation.
38. My best course of action was to help Gill by being loyal, loving and endlessly sympathetic.
39. People who score on personality tests as more sympathetic cry more than those who are more rigid or have more self-control.
40. Juries sympathetic to the victims of machines will punish entrepreneurs with company-crushing penalties and damages.
41. You may strike lucky and find a sympathetic and helpful clerk, but, there again, you might not.
42. Her husband was sympathetic at first but his patience soon wore thin.
43. Sue got a sympathetic round of applause.
44. He was always there with a sympathetic ear.
45. They are sympathetic to the West but do not want any military intervention.
46. As our Diplomatic Correspondent Mark Brayne reports, the president was given a sympathetic hearing.
47. She met people in London who were sympathetic to the Indian freedom struggle.
48. The best method to accomplish the goal of helping patients with AIDS is to unite as many sympathetic people as possible.
49. Many of these early visitors were sympathetic to the Chinese socialist experiment.
50. She was very sympathetic to the problems of adult students.
