EGAVE

sympathy

About 13.48 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another.
  2. noun The formal expression of pity or sorrow for someone else's misfortune.
  3. noun The ability to share the feelings of another.
  4. noun Inclination to think or feel alike; emotional or intellectual accord; common feeling. Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions. Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
    Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
  5. noun Support in the form of shared feelings or opinions.
  6. noun Feeling of loyalty; tendency towards, agreement with or approval of an opinion or aim; a favorable attitude.
    Many people in Hollywood were blacklisted merely because they were suspected of Communist sympathies.
  7. noun An affinity, association or mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it. Artistic harmony, as of shape or colour in a painting.
  8. noun Mutual or parallel susceptibility or a condition brought about by it.

Similar words

fellow feeling understanding sympathetic condolences compassionate condolence compassion sympathizer caring kindness

Often followed by

with for and of in to is which from

Word family

sympathies

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