Usually means: Understanding and sharing others' feelings.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word sympathetic:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. sympathetic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. sympathetic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. sympathetic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. sympathetic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. sympathetic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Sympathetic, sympathetic: Wordnik
  7. sympathetic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. sympathetic: Wiktionary
  9. sympathetic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. sympathetic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. sympathetic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. sympathetic: Dictionary.com
  13. sympathetic: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Sympathetic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Sympathetic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. sympathetic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. sympathetic: Rhymezone
  18. sympathetic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. sympathetic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. sympathetic: Free Dictionary
  21. sympathetic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. sympathetic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. sympathetic: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. sympathetic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. sympathetic: Medical dictionary
  4. 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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