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- pronunciation:
- sIm
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- parts of speech:
- noun, adjective
- features:
- Word Combinations (noun), Word Explorer, Word Parts
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noun |
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sympathies |
| definition 1: |
kind understanding and concern felt for others because they are having difficulty, suffering, or are experiencing sadness, grief, anger, or the like.
I have great sympathy for these people who have lost their homes in the hurricane.She doesn't have any sympathy for people who are unemployed--she thinks it's their own fault.- synonyms:
- compassion
- antonyms:
- indifference
- similar words:
- heart, humanity, pity
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| definition 2: |
expression of compassion, tenderness, or condolence, esp. for one in sorrow.
I thanked my friends for their sympathy after the death of my mother.- synonyms:
- compassion, condolence
- similar words:
- heart, pity
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| definition 3: |
agreement of feeling or emotion between persons or of one person towards another.
Although we disagree on many things, we are in complete sympathy with regard to this issue.- synonyms:
- accord, affinity, agreement, concord, rapport
- antonyms:
- antipathy, hostility
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| definition 4: |
a feeling or expression of approval for plans, causes, ideas, or the like.
We always suspected that he had sympathy for the rebels' cause..- synonyms:
- approval
- antonyms:
- disapproval
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| definition 5: |
a relationship of persons or things in which whatever affects one affects the others similarly.
As husband and wife, they were always in sympathy with each other. |
| related words: |
accord, affinity, approval, bond, comfort, consideration, consolation, feeling, philanthropy, tune, understanding, warmth |
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| part of speech: |
adjective |
| definition: |
performed or given out of feelings of sympathy.
a sympathy gesturea sympathy card- similar words:
- commiserative
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