Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (2)
1.
with respect to the sympathetic nervous system;
- Example: "the stimulus acted sympathetically"2.
in a sympathetic manner;
- Example: "she listened to him sympathetically"[syn: sympathetically, empathetically]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sympathetically \Sym`pa*thet"ic*al*ly\, adv.
In a sympathetic manner.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sympathetically
adv 1: with respect to the sympathetic nervous system; "the
stimulus acted sympathetically"
2: in a sympathetic manner; "she listened to him
sympathetically" [syn: sympathetically, empathetically]
[ant: unsympathetically]