Sympathetic

French Meaning

sympathique

compatissant

agréable

English Meaning

  1. Of, expressing, feeling, or resulting from sympathy: a sympathetic glance.
  2. Favorably inclined: not at all sympathetic to her proposal.
  3. Agreeably suited to one's disposition or mood; congenial: sympathetic surroundings.
  4. Of, relating to, or acting on the sympathetic nervous system: a sympathetic neuron; sympathetic stimulation.
  5. Relating to or being vibrations, especially musical tones, produced in one body by energy from a nearby vibrating body and having the same frequency as the vibration of the nearby body.
  6. Emitting such vibrations: sympathetic strings.