sympathize

/'simpəθaiz/

Học thuật

Thân thiện

I sympathize with your difficult situation.

Definition

Verb:
- To feel or express sympathy or compassion: To share or understand the feelings of another person, especially when they are suffering or experiencing difficulty.
- To be understanding of: To show that you comprehend and accept another person's feelings, situation, or point of view.
- To share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of: To emotionally connect with someone's experience, agreeing with or supporting their emotional state.

Usage and Examples

Verb:
- I deeply sympathize with your loss. (I feel great compassion for you regarding your loss.)
- He sympathized with their struggle for justice. (He expressed understanding and support for their fight.)
- As a parent, I can sympathize with your concerns about safety. (I share and understand your feelings as a fellow parent.)

Advanced Usage

"to sympathize with": This is the standard and almost always required prepositional phrase when the object of sympathy is a person, cause, or situation.
- It's hard not to sympathize with the main character's dilemma.
Used to indicate agreement or alignment with a perspective or feeling.
- While I don't agree with his methods, I sympathize with his goals.

Variants and Related Words

Sympathy (n): The feeling of compassion or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
- She expressed her sympathy with a kind letter.
Sympathetic (adj): Showing, feeling, or expressing sympathy; also, agreeable or likable.
- He gave her a sympathetic smile.
Sympathizer (n): A person who sympathizes with a particular cause or group.
- He was known as a sympathizer of the movement.

Synonyms

Commiserate: To express sympathy or sorrow for someone's suffering (often implies shared misery).
Empathize: To understand and share the feelings of another (often implies a deeper, more personal identification).
Condole: To express sympathetic sorrow, especially on the occasion of a death (more formal).

Related Phrases

To offer one's sympathies: A formal phrase for expressing sympathy.
- Please offer my sympathies to the entire family.
To be in sympathy with: To agree with or support an idea or feeling.
- I find myself in sympathy with that viewpoint.

Notes on Meaning

Sympathize primarily involves compassion for another's suffering or support for their feelings. It does not necessarily mean taking action to help, though it is often a precursor to it.
It is distinct from empathize, which suggests a more profound, intuitive sharing of another's emotional state. Sympathize can sometimes imply pity from a slight distance, while empathize implies a closer emotional connection.

I sympathize with your difficult situation.

Verb

Từ đồng nghĩa