given to, showing, or arising from compassion and sensitivity to others’ feelings
favourably inclined
not sympathetic to the idea
appropriate to one's mood or temperament; congenial
existing or operating through an affinity, or mutual association, or relationship in which each of two or more people or things is simultaneously affected in a similar way
relating to or acting on the sympathetic nervous system
belonging or relating to the sympathetic nervous system
mediated by or acting on the sympathetic nerves
denoting musical sounds produced, or strings sounded, by sympathetic vibration
sympathetically adv
[scientific Latin sympatheticus, from Latin sympathia: see sympathy]