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simpatico, a.|sɪmˈpætɪkəʊ|
Also (fem.) simpatica.
[It. or Sp.: see sympathic a.]
Pleasing, likeable; congenial, understanding; sensitive, sympathetic.
1864H. Sidgwick Let. 21 Oct. in Memoir (1906) ii. 119 The Frau Professorin was less ‘simpatica’. 1905E. M. Forster Where Angels fear to Tread iii. 86 The person who understands us at first sight, who never irritates us, who never bores..that is what I mean by simpatico. 1908W. James Let. 4 Oct. (1920) II. 314, I find him [sc. Boutroux] very simpatico. 1936E. Ambler Dark Frontier 80 She was infinitely—as those appreciative Italians put it—infinitely simpatica. 1952A. Huxley Let. 20 May (1969) 644 There is something simpatico about Pascal—he is a kind of Central European Baron Munchausen. 1964Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 19 Mar. (1970) 96 Although he is very attached to the Kennedys, I thought we had established a certain simpatico relationship with him. 1976Observer 22 Feb. 26/7 Sylvia reluctantly committed Ralph into the care of a blunt but simpatico medico who didn't talk down either to her or to us. |