sympathetic

  • (a) of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system
    • sympathetic neurons
    • sympathetic stimulation
  • (a) expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward
    • sympathetic to the students' cause
    • a sympathetic observer
    • a sympathetic gesture
  • (s) showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity
    • was charitable in his opinions of others
    • kindly criticism
    • a kindly act
    • sympathetic words
    • a large-hearted mentor
    good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted, benevolent, charitable,
  • (a) (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings
    • the sympathetic characters in the play
    likable, likeable, appealing,
  • (s) having similar disposition and tastes
    • with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion
  • (s) relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body
    • sympathetic vibration
    harmonic,

Synonyms

good-hearted kindly large-hearted openhearted benevolent charitable likable likeable appealing harmonic

Antonyms

unsympathetic unappealing unlikable unlikeable

See also

compassionate congenial kind

Words of close approximity

sympathetically sympathetic nervous system sympathetic strike sympathetic vibration