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/sɪmpəˈθɛtɪk(ə)li/ · adverb
Owing to or showing evidence of sympathy, or affinity; happening through or demonstrating correspondences, whether occult or physiological..
I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
Still she didn't stir, so he patted her shoulder and added sympathetically, 'Come now, don't take it so much to heart.'
Use sympathetically when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Sympathetically means Owing to or showing evidence of sympathy, or affinity; happening through or demonstrating correspondences, whether occult or physiological..
Common synonyms include empathetically, with empathy, with sympathy.
Possible antonyms include unsympathetically, without sympathy.
I feel sure that here before me were assembled those, in whose unhealing hearts the sight of those bleak tablets sympathetically caused the old wounds to bleed afresh.
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