sympathetically
Definition
- Adverb:
- In a manner showing understanding, care, or compassion: Acting or responding with kindness and sensitivity to someone's feelings, situation, or difficulties.
- In a manner showing agreement or favor: Reacting with approval or support for an idea, cause, or proposal.
- In a manner relating to the sympathetic nervous system: Functioning in a way connected to the part of the nervous system that controls involuntary bodily responses.
Usage Examples
- Showing understanding or compassion:
- The teacher nodded sympathetically as the student explained his family problems.
- He spoke sympathetically to the victims of the accident.
- Showing agreement or favor:
- The council looked sympathetically upon the proposal for a new park.
- Relating to the nervous system (technical):
- The drug acts sympathetically to increase the heart rate.
Advanced Usage
- "to listen sympathetically": to pay attention to someone's problems with kindness and a desire to understand.
- A good friend always listens sympathetically.
- "to view/regard something sympathetically": to consider something with a favorable or supportive attitude.
- The judge viewed the defendant's circumstances sympathetically.
Variants and Related Words
- Sympathetic (adjective): feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy.
- She gave me a sympathetic smile.
- Sympathy (noun): feelings of pity and sorrow for someone else's misfortune; understanding between people; common feeling.
- I have great sympathy for their loss.
Synonyms
- Compassionately: in a way that shows deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering.
- Understandingly: in a manner that shows comprehension and tolerance.
- Supportively: in a way that provides encouragement or help.
Antonyms
- Unsympathetically: in an unsympathetic manner.
- Callously: in a way that shows an insensitive and cruel disregard for others.
- Harshly: in a severe, cruel, or unkind manner.
Related Phrases
- To be sympathetic to/towards: to be in agreement with or supportive of.
- The government is more sympathetic to environmental concerns now.
- A sympathetic ear: a willingness to listen to someone's problems.
- She always offers a sympathetic ear when I need to talk.
Adverb
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in a sympathetic manner
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she listened to him sympathetically
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with respect to the sympathetic nervous system
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the stimulus acted sympathetically
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