Search Result for "sympathize":
Wordnet 3.0
VERB (3)
1. share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of;
[syn: sympathize, sympathise]
2. be understanding of;
- Example: "You don't need to explain--I understand!"
[syn: sympathize, sympathise, empathize, empathise, understand]
3. to feel or express sympathy or compassion;
[syn: commiserate, sympathize, sympathise]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sympathize \Sym"pa*thize\, v. t. 1. To experience together. [Obs.] "This sympathized . . . error." --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. To ansew to; to correspond to. [Obs.] --Shak. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sympathize \Sym"pa*thize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sympathized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sympathizing.] [F. sympathiser. See Sympathy.] 1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. [1913 Webster] The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. --Buckminster. [1913 Webster] 2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected. [1913 Webster] Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
