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UK
/ˌɛmpɐθˈɛtɪk/
]
[ US /ˌɛmpəˈθɛtɪk/ ]
[ US /ˌɛmpəˈθɛtɪk/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states
a sensitive and empathetic school counselor
How To Use empathetic In A Sentence
- Meantime, the challenges of being Rector of Dundee should not daunt Kelly, with her empathetic skills, campaigning experience and endless enthusiasm.
- But they could not be empathetic, they just couldn't understand because it had not happened to them.
- Duma Key is not just a novel for the fans, but a cathartic response from King over his near-death accident in 1999; no doubt he relived his agonizing recovery while writing about Freemantle, and yet it is because of this firsthand experience, that Duma Key feels much more personal and empathetic. 2010 February 15 « The BookBanter Blog
- I changed hospitals as part of my rotation and worked with an unusually empathetic consultant.
- Philanthropy often has merely abstract rewards for the giver: that warm empathetic feeling; an assuagement of theoretical guilt; perhaps even an aggrandized sense of self, as the largesse is doled out. Billionaire Soros To Help Fight Urban Drug Abuse
- Would-be doctors had personality defects ranging from extreme over-confidence, narcissism and aloofness to being overly empathetic.
- His talent for empathetic understanding reaches its peak with Sylvia, who has not read a good book in her entire life.
- Results show that students today are 40 per cent less empathetic than they were 20 years ago. Times, Sunday Times
- Being the sensitive kindly empathetic person she is, if Althouse could give rh a hug, I'm 100% sure she would. "I'm going to stop this car right now and leave you here!''
- He has the same hardness, the same grit beneath an affable and empathetic nature. Times, Sunday Times