sympathetic meaning
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[ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪk] [-ɛtɪk] 
US WSympathetic
- Sympathetic may refer to:
- Sympathy, in psychology, a feeling of compassion or identification with another
- Sympathetic detonation, a detonation, usually unintended, of an explosive charge by a nearby explosion
- Sympathetic magic, in religion, magic, and anthropology, the belief that like affects like, that something can be influenced through its relationship with another thing
- Sympathetic nervous system, in neurology and neuroscience, a part of the autonomic nervous system
- Sympathetic resonance, a harmonic phenomenon wherein a body responds to external vibrations
- AdjectiveCOMmore sympatheticSUPmost sympatheticPREsym-SUF-etic
- Of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
- John looked very upset. I gave him a sympathetic look.
- Of or relating to similarity.
- Sympathetic magic is based on imitation or correspondence.
- Of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- Bradycardia due to increased vagal tone and hypotension, caused by reduction of sympathetic activity, may occur during nonrapid eye movement sleep (NREM).
- Excessive sprouting of sympathetic nerves and subsequent hyperinnervation received increased attention due to their associations with fatal arrhythmia and sudden death[1 ].
- Government MP's sympathetic to the opposition's arguments are starting to break cover.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of sympathetic in English Dictionary
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Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "sympathetic" is an adjective.