Sympathize

Quick meaning: Sympathize is a verb meaning (intransitive) To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).

Meaning

(intransitive) To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).

More Meanings

1. (transitive) To say in an expression of sympathy.
2. (intransitive) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
3. (transitive, obsolete) To share (a feeling or experience).
4. (intransitive) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
5. (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

Example Sentences

The wives were sympathizing with each other in slightly raised voices.

He’d go to […] Soviet Russia—now giving us the whole story, that he sympathized with the Reds and admired Lenin […]

[…] naturally the British aristocracy sympathized with the Confederacy, as one aristocrat with another, against a race of dollar lovers like the Yankees.

“I can’t quite sympathise with your mother in all her feelings about this marriage, because I do not think that I recognise as she does the necessity of money.”

Word Forms

• sympathizes
• sympathizing
• sympathized
• sympathise

Synonyms for sympathize

Depending on context, synonyms include commiserate, understand, empathize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include empathize, commiserate, understand, socialize, agree, pity.

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