Usually means: Understanding and sharing others' feelings.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word sympathetic:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathetic: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. sympathetic: Merriam-Webster
  3. sympathetic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. sympathetic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. sympathetic: Collins English Dictionary
  6. sympathetic: Vocabulary.com
  7. Sympathetic, sympathetic: Wordnik
  8. sympathetic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. sympathetic: Wiktionary
  10. sympathetic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. sympathetic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. sympathetic: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. sympathetic: Dictionary.com
  14. sympathetic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Sympathetic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Sympathetic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. sympathetic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. sympathetic: Rhymezone
  19. sympathetic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. sympathetic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. sympathetic: FreeDictionary.org
  22. sympathetic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. sympathetic: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. sympathetic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sympathetic: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sympathetic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathetic: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. sympathetic: Medical dictionary
  5. Excessive Sweating (No longer online)

(Note: See sympathetically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
adjective:  Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.
adjective:  Attracting the liking of others. (of a person)
adjective:  (construction) Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.
adjective:  (relational) Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.
adjective:  A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. (of magic)
adjective:  (sound) Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.
adjective:  (neuroanatomy, neurology, relational) Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves.
noun:  (neuroanatomy) A sympathetic nerve.

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