| 单词 | sympathetic |
| 释义 | sympathetic (once / 320 pages) adj A sympathetic person is one who's motivated by compassion. You can imagine that most of the people who work for the Red Cross are sympathetic types. In literature and film, the sympathetic character is the one who is likable or who evokes feelings of sympathy from the audience. The sympathetic character in a romantic comedy is probably the romantic male lead who keeps getting ignored by the beautiful women. Eventually the sympathetic character will get noticed and the leading lady will fall in love with him, then they will live happily ever after. WORD FAMILYsympathetic: sympathetically, unsympathetic+/sympathise: sympathised, sympathiser, sympathises, sympathising/sympathiser: sympathisers/sympathising: unsympathising/sympathize: sympathized, sympathizer, sympathizes, sympathizing/sympathizer: sympathizers/sympathizing: unsympathizing/sympathy: sympathetic, sympathies, sympathise, sympathize/unsympathetic: unsympathetically/unsympathizing: unsympathizingly USAGE EXAMPLESConforming to no stereotype — they were health-food enthusiasts and hippie-bashers — they were each, in their way, sympathetic to visual art. New York Times(Dec 30, 2016) Some even sympathetic commentators accused the Justice Secretary of seeking controversy, of fighting too many of her battles through media publicity. BBC(Dec 28, 2016) I relayed the details to my best friend, who was sympathetic. Washington Post(Dec 27, 2016) 1adj expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward sympathetic to the students' cause a sympathetic observer a sympathetic gesture Syn|Ant compassionate showing or having compassion congenialsuitable to your needs kindhaving or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior commiserativefeeling or expressing sympathy condolentexpressing sympathy with a person who experienced the death of a loved one empathetic, empathicshowing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states unsympathetic not sympathetic or disposed toward uncompassionatelacking compassion or feeling for others incompatible, uncongenialnot suitable to your tastes or needs unresponsivenot responding to some influence or stimulus unsympathising, unsympathizingnot showing or expressing sympathy 2adj showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding and generosity sympathetic words Syn benevolent, charitable, good-hearted, kindly, large-hearted, openhearted kind having or showing a tender and considerate and helpful nature; used especially of persons and their behavior 3adj (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings the sympathetic characters in the play Syn|Ant appealing, likable, likeable unappealing, unlikable, unlikeable, unsympathetic (of characters in literature or drama) tending to evoke antipathetic feelings 4adj having similar disposition and tastes with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion Syn similar marked by correspondence or resemblance 5adj of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system sympathetic neurons sympathetic stimulation 6adj relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body sympathetic vibration Syn harmonic harmonious musically pleasing |
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