Meaning

A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another..

Definitions by Sense

1. A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
2. Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling.
3. An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition.

Example Sentences

If you want sympathy you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis. Sympathy may pay well in the short term, but if you cash in on sympathy, it will take everything from you in the long run.

And all told, Trump’s second term has actually led to the most sympathy for migrants on record in the 21st century, per Gallup. Fully 79% of Americans now say immigration is a “good thing,” compared with 64% last year.

Oh vvhat a ſimpathie of vvoe is this, / As farre from helpe, as Lymbo is from bliſſe.

He observed, also, the frequent sympathy of volcanic and terremotive action in remote districts of the earth's surface, thus showing how deeply seated must be the cause of these convulsions.

A peculiarity of were-animals is the sympathy that exists between their animal form and that of the human with whom it is connected.

The solution to coach riding defects, at least, seems to require much more co-operative practical experiment by all engineering departments to achieve better sympathy between the vehicle body, its undercarriage and the track on which it rides.

Sympathy likened anything to anything else in universal attraction, e.g. the fate of men to the course of the planets.

Word Forms

• sympathies

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Use sympathy when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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