sympathize

Meaning

1. (Canada, US, intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected
2. (Canada, US, intransitive) To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).
3. (Canada, US, transitive) To say in an expression of sympathy.
4. (Canada, US, intransitive) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
5. (Canada, US, obsolete, transitive) To share (a feeling or experience).
6. (Canada, US, intransitive) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Synonyms

pity

sympathise

commiserate

condole

empathize

have compassion

understand

console

comfort

compassionate

feel for

feel compassion for

empathise

become tender

side with

show mercy

express sympathy

weep along

commisserate

agree

pay compassion to

befriend

care for

cheer up

compassion

condole with

infer

lament

like

melt

pull

surmise

sympathy

Translations

compatir

simpatizar

meevoelen

sympathiseren

sympathiser

mitfühlen

simpatizar

simpatizzare

sympathisieren

başsağlığı dilemek

Mitgefühl

Mitleid haben

sentir empatia

empatitzar

Etymology

Borrowed from French sympathiser. By surface analysis, sympathy + -ize. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwian (literally “to suffer with or together”).