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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
Be sympathetic to an only child who maybe needed time to adapt to big-family noise, or still needs breaks from it. — Carolyn Hax, oregonlive.com, "Carolyn Hax: Son and daughter-in-law finished with ‘circus-like’ family gatherings," 10 Aug. 2019 In Gladstone, the longtime park owner was sympathetic to residents and waited for their financing to come together. — oregonlive.com, "One of Oregon’s biggest stocks of affordable housing -- the mobile home -- is in peril, despite state interventions," 13 July 2019 Whelan was sympathetic and told Vega and the prosecutors to negotiate what terms would be acceptable. — San Diego Union-Tribune, "Column: Rep. Hunter’s attorney won’t put other congressional behavior on trial," 3 July 2019 Trump has had varying stances through the years on whether to keep DACA, at times appearing sympathetic toward Dreamers. — Tatiana Sanchez, SFChronicle.com, "Bay Area ‘Dreamers’ anxious about upcoming court review of DACA," 28 June 2019 And with material that finally allowed her character to be sympathetic, Grobglas ran with it, turning in one of TV’s most underrated performances. — Derek Lawrence, EW.com, "Forget Team Michael or Rafael, Jane and Petra are now the heart of Jane the Virgin," 26 June 2019 Torcellini manages to make the swindling Bialystock a rather sympathetic character and Raben’s performance as the mousy, blanket-dependent (think Peanuts’ Linus) accountant is believable. — Pomerado News, "REVIEW: Moonlight’s ‘The Producers’ is intentionally-offensive comedy," 19 June 2019 This episode demonstrated that a highly polished campaign with a compelling story about a sympathetic character—or a celebrity—can go viral, while countless others are left in the dust. — Quentin Fottrell, Town & Country, "GoFundMe Has Revolutionized How We Give, But Is That a Good Thing?," 19 June 2019 Dunn-Koczorowski was sentenced on two counts of encouraging terrorism, which included an online post sympathetic toward Anders Breivik, the man who killed at least 77 people in Oslo, Norway. — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, "Neo-Nazi teens who threatened Prince Harry jailed for online 'terrorist' posts," 18 June 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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