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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sympathetic/sɪmpəˈθetɪk/
▶adjective
- 1 feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy.
■ showing approval of an idea or action.
- 2 likeable.
■ designed in a sensitive or fitting way.
- 3 Physiology relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves.
- 4 of or denoting an effect which arises in response to a similar action elsewhere.
– derivatives
sympathetically adverb.
sympathetically adverb.
'sympathetic' also found in these Oxford entries:
compassion
- ear
- kind-hearted
- large-hearted
- my
- send
- soft
- solar plexus
- sympathectomy
- sympathetic magic
- sympathetic strings
- sympathomimetic
- tactile
- tender
- understanding
- unsympathetic
- warm-hearted
- well disposed
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