[
UK
/sˌɪmpəθˈɛtɪkli/
]
[ US /ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪkəɫi, ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪkɫi/ ]
[ US /ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪkəɫi, ˌsɪmpəˈθɛtɪkɫi/ ]
ADVERB
-
with respect to the sympathetic nervous system
the stimulus acted sympathetically -
in a sympathetic manner
she listened to him sympathetically
How To Use sympathetically In A Sentence
- I smiled sympathetically, but was more worried about who I was going to be stuck with.
- It worries them that many vintage structures, both vernacular and colonial, are being changed unsympathetically, resulting in eyesores, even on King Street.
- For many of us, communicating openly and sympathetically does not come naturally.
- They were all sympathetically disposed towards her bitter experience.
- Thus, in one place we have the following avowal, which is only not _naïf_ because evidently put in to please the prejudices of sympathetically narrow readers. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
- There will be no one who is able to respond sympathetically to his innermost fears and apprehensions.
- They both then rushed pell-mell to the doctor, carrying dead snake and severed thumb, and Henry laughed very heartily and unsympathetically because, as it happened, the snake was a non-poisonous variety.
- The publication has only 163 pages, but it is full of the joy found in people when one sympathetically understands the oddness of age and mental infirmity.
- After the second one — a 2-foot tap-in — rolled out, one fan yelled sympathetically, "Aw, John! Daly withdraws from PGA Championship after a 78
- They were all sympathetically disposed towards her bitter experience.