Definition of Sympathetic

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Sympathetic

Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.

Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.

Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.

Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber.

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Sympathetic Quotations

Is there anything more dangerous than sympathetic understanding?
Pablo Picasso

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver

At every crisis in one's life, it is absolute salvation to have some sympathetic friend to whom you can think aloud without restraint or misgiving.
Woodrow Wilson

This (George W. Bush's) administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations.
Ralph Nader

The pat on the back, the arm around the shoulder, the praise for what was done right and the sympathetic nod for what wasn't are as much a part of golf as life itself.
Gerald R. Ford

A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother.
Homer

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?
Isadora Duncan

There will be, I think, an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods, together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.
Edward Hopper

Broad paths are open to every endeavour, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.
Franz Liszt

I was sympathetic to virtually all groups that wanted to get away from the old system.
Clarence Thomas

Sympathetic Translations

sympathetic in Dutch is sympathiek, innemend, zielsverwant
sympathetic in Swedish is tilltalande, sympatisk

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