Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a sympathetic manner; with sympathy, in any sense; in consequence of sympathy, or sympathetic interaction or interdependence.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a sympathetic manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb Owing to or showing evidence of "
sympathy ", oraffinity ; happening through or demonstrating correspondences, whether occult or physiological. - adverb In a manner which demonstrates a sharing in the feelings of others;
compassionately .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb in a sympathetic manner
- adverb with respect to the sympathetic nervous system
Etymologies
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Examples
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Kreis seemed to wake up and flash like some metallic, magnetic thing, while Norton looked at Martin sympathetically, with a sweet, girlish smile, as much as to say that he would be amply protected.
Chapter 36 2010
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Last year he wrote an article for Spin sympathetically exploring the complexities of the relationship between Mary Kay Tourneau, the Seattle teacher convicted of statutory rape, and her teenage lover.
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I managed to escape for a couple of months; but when I was bowled over, Martin sympathetically joined me several days later.
Chapter 17 1913
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I managed to escape for a couple of months; but when I was bowled over, Martin sympathetically joined me several days later.
Chapter 17 1911
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Kreis seemed to wake up and flash like some metallic, magnetic thing, while Norton looked at Martin sympathetically, with a sweet, girlish smile, as much as to say that he would be amply protected.
Chapter 36 1908
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Hence the need to portray the villain sympathetically.
The Importance of Not Being Too Earnest at SF Novelists 2009
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And again, insight into the more enduring preferences of men and the conditions of their happiness, upon which rational moral standards are founded, is indispensable to a complete interpretation of life; but there is much of life that can be envisaged sympathetically, that is, artistically and beautifully, with small hold on ethical wisdom.
The Principles of Aesthetics Dewitt H. Parker
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"Poor dear darling!" murmured Margot sympathetically, at which the
Big Game A Story for Girls George de Horne Vaizey 1887
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She received us nowhere more sympathetically, that is with less ceremony or self - consciousness, I seem to recall, than at Montepulciano, for instance -- where it was indeed that the recovery of private judgment I just referred to couldn't help taking place.
Italian Hours Henry James 1879
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Previously, he said he would look "sympathetically" at applications.
Ireland Extends Deposit Guarantee to Some Foreign Banks 2008
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