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Synonyms & Antonyms for sympathetic
Synonyms: Adjective
commiserative, compassionate, empathetic, empathic, humane, understanding
Antonyms: Adjective
callous, cold-blooded, coldhearted, hard, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, obdurate, unfeeling, unsympathetic
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Examples of sympathetic in a Sentence
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He received much help from sympathetic friends. I didn't find the hero in the movie very sympathetic.Recent Examples on the Web: Adjective
Like the hiQ case, this early one occurred in California, so appeals would have been heard by the 9th Circuit—which might have been sympathetic to their case. — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, "Web scraping doesn’t violate anti-hacking law, appeals court rules," 9 Sep. 2019 Neither family is sympathetic to the protesters; Mok’s parents are staunchly pro-government. — Megan K. Stack, The New Yorker, "Bravery and Nihilism Amid the Protests in Hong Kong," 31 Aug. 2019 Conte is a lawyer who, while officially non-partisan, has been openly sympathetic with the 5-Stars. — Washington Post, "Italy’s Conte might be back at helm with Salvini shut out," 28 Aug. 2019 For those not familiar with the book or all the characters mentioned, the central point is that Wouk ended the book being more sympathetic to his manifestly deranged main character, Captain Queeg, and critical of those who removed him from command. — James Fallows, The Atlantic, "On Trump and Queeg: A Followup," 25 Aug. 2019 Grossman was sympathetic to Pasternak during the controversy surrounding Doctor Zhivago’s publication and wrote him a letter to this effect. — Sean Williams, Harper's magazine, "Letters," 19 Aug. 2019 But the airline would be sympathetic to passengers that didn't feel comfortable on 737 Max planes. — Dallas News, "Southwest Airlines CEO on 737 Max: 'There's no better 175-seat airplane'," 2 Aug. 2019 Zhao was also, in those nervy spring days of 1989, sympathetic to the students. — The Economist, "Obituary: Li Peng died on July 22nd," 25 July 2019 Barr has come under scrutiny for steering the public narrative around the report, which was very sympathetic to President Donald Trump. — Jen Kirby, Vox, "Why Mueller saying his probe wasn’t “curtailed” has nothing to do with obstruction," 24 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'sympathetic.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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