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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
sympathy
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a message of support/sympathy/congratulations etc
▪ Other celebrities sent messages of support.
a wave of panic/relief/sympathy
▪ A wave of relief washed over Harry.
an expression of sympathy
▪ There was no apology, no expression of sympathy for what Anna had suffered.
excite sympathy
▪ She sought to excite the jury's sympathy at every possible opportunity.
express your sympathy (=say that you feel sorry for someone who is in a bad situation)
▪ I wrote to his widow expressing our sympathy and sending her our condolences.
extended...sympathy
▪ The Coroner extended his sympathy to the victim’s family.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
certain
▪ Do you feel a certain sympathy with this point of view?
▪ One feels a certain sympathy for those selected to carry the torch in New Zealand.
considerable
▪ There is considerable sympathy for members of the public who commit some minor infringement under circumstances which are considered justifiable and understandable.
▪ I have considerable sympathy for what the two new clauses seek to do.
▪ I had considerable sympathy with the sentiment expressed in the poster.
▪ Also, and in sharp contrast with his attitude during the General Strike, he exhibited considerable sympathy for the miners.
deep
▪ Cruelty factor: 5 / 10 Please accept my deepest sympathy as respect of Mr David Cunningham.
▪ What there is instead is a deep sense of sympathy with those who have been damaged by the flood.
▪ With deep sympathy - get out!
▪ He wants to express his deep sympathy to the Humphreys family.
▪ We extend our deepest sympathy to her family.
▪ The rector offered his deepest sympathy to Richard's parents.
full
▪ When the child's father heard Kerry's story, he was full of sympathy and concern.
▪ The room is full of sympathy cards.
▪ Russell's screenplay is full of announced sympathy for ordinary people's lives, and actual condescension.
great
▪ People were unfailingly courteous and showed great sympathy - but throughout, all eyes were firmly on Abu Dhabi.
▪ I had great sympathy for his plight.
▪ Mr. Newton I have great sympathy with every point that my hon. Friend made.
▪ I have great sympathy for people who are suffering through private nightmares of hopelessness and loss.
▪ I have great sympathy for the police.
▪ Why the great sympathy for the criminals?
▪ The Hillsborough disaster seemed to encourage a period of self-reflection and greater public sympathy for the beleaguered game of soccer.
▪ Gary had much greater sympathy with the second camp than with the first.
little
▪ There were disgusted nods, but little sense of sympathy from either.
▪ A little more sympathy and better treatment options.
▪ This man had as little sympathy for the environment as a pike might have kind feelings towards a minnow.
▪ It also apparently has little sympathy from other areas of the world.
▪ Pleas about competition were regarded with much suspicion and little sympathy by the trade unions.
▪ Surprisingly little sympathy too - considering the discomfort haemorrhoids can cause.
public
▪ Indeed, they have probably risen in public sympathy precisely because they have been attacked and weakened.
▪ Prosecution only fed a growing public sympathy for her and her cause.
▪ Nowadays there is widespread public sympathy.
▪ The Hillsborough disaster seemed to encourage a period of self-reflection and greater public sympathy for the beleaguered game of soccer.
▪ Clarke engaged in a vigorous debate with the doctors but found public sympathy running against him.
▪ All the newspapers carried the story and there was a wave of public sympathy for him.
▪ Has increased public sympathy cost us too dear?
▪ There was much public sympathy for the miners in general, however rebarbative the personality and creed of Arthur Scargill himself.
real
▪ Once again I felt no real sympathy coming from him; simply his obsessive and inexplicable curiosity.
▪ The woman, on the other hand, would be hard to portray with any real sympathy.
special
▪ In such a small group the special sympathy between the two boys was obvious to all their companions.
▪ You are a man of special sympathy and intelligence, and I greatly respect you for it.
▪ He had a special sympathy for the underdog, and he enjoyed hobnobbing with all and sundry.
■ VERB
deserve
▪ He deserves some sympathy: how on earth could he deliver artistic goods that have the weight of his global charity work?
▪ The national media made her a heroine, status richly deserved, and the sympathy grew even more.
▪ She deserves sympathy in these present difficult times.
▪ She'd led me on, I didn't think she deserved my sympathy after that.
▪ They deserve our sympathy and help.
▪ Drug addicts do not deserve sympathy.
▪ One, motivated only by despair, deserves sympathy and time to absorb the full implication of last Thursday's election.
elicit
▪ That is why she elicits so much sympathy.
▪ Is he a human who elicits sympathy?
▪ The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy, not laughter.
evoke
▪ A clingy, whiny child who evokes your sympathy.
▪ Some one suggested the Mayor of St Louis, Missouri, thinking that the consonance of names might perhaps evoke sympathy.
▪ Messily directed by John Schlesinger, it fails to evoke admiration or sympathy for its characters.
▪ I felt that the Zimmer frame parked alongside the court evoked a touch of sympathy.
▪ One gets exasperated with the Chamomilla child, unlike the Pulsatilla child who most often evokes one's sympathy.
excite
▪ There is no doubt that Zbo played on Modigliani's illness to excite sympathy in a way which the artist did not appreciate.
▪ Unfaithful husbands are the norm, while unfaithful wives excite no sympathy, just blame.
expect
▪ Ossis, mostly baffled by the society they thought they wanted, expect a sympathy most Wessis seem unable to muster.
▪ At best she had expected bland sympathy from him, but the sparks shooting in his eyes were genuine.
▪ Surely it can not expect to win sympathy for its cause.
▪ She shouts that if I get soaked I needn't expect sympathy, and I call for her to join me.
▪ Nomatterwhat difficulties he encounters within the system, he can expect no sympathy.
express
▪ Initially, Simpson said, King and Ryan expressed sympathy for her and vowed she could keep her job.
▪ I, too, express my sympathy to his family and to his fiance e and her family.
▪ He wants to express his deep sympathy to the Humphreys family.
▪ But some staff members have at one point expressed sympathy for a Valley secession.
▪ Mr Barter recorded a suicide verdict and expressed his sympathy to Mr Banks' family.
▪ Every man there expressed his sympathy.
▪ The various Nationalists had also expressed their sympathy for such a move.
extend
▪ We extend sympathy to his family.
▪ We extend our sympathy to Mrs Gladys Fisher, and to their son and daughter.
▪ On behalf of the Society members we extend our sympathy to June's husband Bob and her two sons.
▪ The historian does not extend his sympathy to the leaders.
feel
▪ We feel sympathy for the hero who is led astray under the influence of his false friend.
▪ Perhaps he felt sympathy towards some one struggling to hook ideas together.
▪ You might feel sympathy with her action and offer verbal or actual support.
▪ Rostov found it hard to feel sympathy for Grigoriev's predicament.
▪ Many feel a lack of sympathy for such obsession.
▪ Although we do feel sympathy for Blanche she seems to wallow in her self pity.
▪ You are made to feel sympathy at certain points of the book and hatred at others.
find
▪ This is a chord that finds sympathy in the public choice school.
▪ Shaun found no more sympathy when he made a quick dash to hospital.
gain
▪ He just limped around gaining more sympathy from his students by hinting what a brute his wife was.
▪ The ad gained Wellstone enough sympathy to squeak by with a 48, 000-vote margin.
▪ I'd hoped to gain sympathy from those idiotic journalists.
▪ It's a publicity stunt to gain sympathy.
offer
▪ It offered neither tea nor sympathy.
▪ I would offer him perfect sympathy, he would understand me the way no one else had.
▪ It was little Tero, turned out in the same paddock, offering silent sympathy.
▪ Unfortunately, there is always one person at these affairs who feels compelled to offer sympathy and encouragement.
▪ But Beatrix wrote again, offering her sympathy - and her help, if we needed it.
▪ Today she offered sympathy for the victims.
▪ People couldn't offer her expressions of sympathy.
▪ On behalf of the whole Society we offer our deep sympathy to Hilda and her family.
receive
▪ I received nothing but sympathy and understanding from them.
▪ He was fined $ 110, 000 and received an outpouring of sympathy at the time.
▪ His sacking is a clear message to other officers that they will receive no sympathy for their indiscretions.
show
▪ Like Nietzsche, Feuerbach frequently shows more sympathy for orthodox believers than for rationalizing modernist theologians.
▪ But Casper has shown sympathy for the students' cause.
▪ People were unfailingly courteous and showed great sympathy - but throughout, all eyes were firmly on Abu Dhabi.
▪ There were some people who might show sympathy towards the Jacobites even though they were not Jacobites themselves.
▪ He also showed cautious sympathy for homosexuals.
▪ However, Nottingham showed little sympathy and Pepper rubbed salt in their wounds.
▪ Law makers, givers and enforcers should show more understanding and sympathy in the face of intolerable provocation.
▪ Not one of the faces showed any sympathy towards him; all were determined that he should hang.
win
▪ Once again, it struck you that an actor was more likely to win sympathy from an audience than a slack-jawed garrulous Balaclava.
▪ Initially, Peter won the sympathy of a few board members with his critique of the program s academic standards.
▪ Surely it can not expect to win sympathy for its cause.
▪ And he had confided in Patricia with the subconscious desire of winning from her sympathy and condolence.
▪ Soon after taking office Reagan won much popular sympathy when he was shot and wounded in an assassination attempt.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
tea and sympathy
▪ It was possible, of course, that she wanted to dispense tea and sympathy, but he had his doubts.
▪ Who would it hurt if we let ourselves be led via tea and sympathy to booze and bed?
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm not asking for sympathy.
▪ Relatives of the aircrash victims were treated with great sympathy.
▪ She looked at him with sympathy.
▪ The Prime Minister expressed outrage at the attack, and sympathy for the families of the victims.
▪ The trip also is intended to raise money and sympathy for the plight of the Tibetan people.
▪ You have my deepest sympathy, and my thoughts are with you.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ By showing the parts that came to make the whole, Albee allows for sympathy.
▪ Five hundred spectators groaned in sympathy.
▪ Garrison, in sympathy, sat with them for the rest of the convention.
▪ He's about as likely to have sympathy for the devil as he is to have satisfaction.
▪ Now he began to wonder if his sympathy was misplaced.
▪ The best writers manage to have sympathy for all their characters; there is always more than one side to represent.
▪ The longest story is so full of pathos that the joke lines elicit only sympathy, not laughter.
▪ There was no cause for any sympathy at that time.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sympathy

Sympathy \Sym"pa*thy\, n.; pl. Sympathies. [F. sympathie, L. sympathia, Gr. ?; sy`n with + ? suffering, passion, fr. ?, ?, to suffer. See Syn-, and Pathos.]

  1. Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.

    They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy.
    --Milton.

  2. An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.

  3. Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.

    I value myself upon sympathy, I hate and despise myself for envy.
    --Kames.

  4. (Physiol. & Med.)

    1. The reciprocal influence exercised by organs or parts on one another, as shown in the effects of a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.

    2. The influence of a certain psychological state in one person in producing a like state in another.

      Note: In the original 1890 work, sense (b) was described as: ``That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.''

  5. A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.

  6. Similarity of function, use office, or the like.

    The adverb has most sympathy with the verb.
    --Earle.

    Syn: Pity; fellow-feeling; compassion; commiseration; tenderness; condolence; agreement.

    Usage: Sympathy, Commiseration. Sympathy is literally a fellow-feeling with others in their varied conditions of joy or of grief. This term, however, is now more commonly applied to a fellow-feeling with others under affliction, and then coincides very nearly with commiseration. In this case it is commonly followed by for; as, to feel sympathy for a friend when we see him distressed. The verb sympathize is followed by with; as, to sympathize with a friend in his distresses or enjoyments. ``Every man would be a distinct species to himself, were there no sympathy among individuals.''
    --South. See Pity.

    Fault, Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought Commiseration.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
sympathy

1570s, "affinity between certain things," from Middle French sympathie (16c.) and directly from Late Latin sympathia "community of feeling, sympathy," from Greek sympatheia "fellow-feeling, community of feeling," from sympathes "having a fellow feeling, affected by like feelings," from assimilated form of syn- "together" (see syn-) + pathos "feeling" (see pathos).\n

\nIn English, almost a magical notion at first; used in reference to medicines that heal wounds when applied to a cloth stained with blood from the wound. Meaning "conformity of feelings" is from 1590s; sense of "fellow feeling, compassion" is first attested c.1600. An Old English loan-translation of sympathy was efensargung.

Wiktionary
sympathy

n. 1 A feeling of pity or sorrow for the suffering or distress of another; compassion. 2 The ability to share the feelings of another. 3 A mutual relationship between people or things such that they are correspondingly affected by any condition. 4 Tendency towards or approval of the aims of a movement.

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WordNet
sympathy

  1. n. an inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion; "his sympathies were always with the underdog"; "I knew I could count on his understanding" [syn: understanding]

  2. sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish) [syn: fellow feeling]

  3. a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other; "the two of them were in close sympathy"

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Wikipedia
Sympathy (Hitomi Takahashi album)

sympathy is Hitomi Takahashi's first album to be released under gr8! records, a division of Sony Records. The album was released on March 1, 2006, and three singles preceded it.

Sympathy (disambiguation)

Sympathy is when a person's feelings reflect or are like those of another person.

Sympathy may also refer to:

  • "Sympathy", a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872–1906)
  • Sympathy (John Miles album), 1980
  • Sympathy (music), a short piece of instrumental music, composed and performed by Natias Neutert in 1988
  • Sympathy (band), a Canadian technical death metal band formed in 1991
  • Sympathy (Raphe Malik album), 2004
  • sympathy (Hitomi Takahashi album), 2006
Sympathy (Goo Goo Dolls song)

"Sympathy" is a song by the Goo Goo Dolls. The song was used as a promotional single released from their album Gutterflower. The song appeared on the soundtrack to the film A Cinderella Story. It was shortened to about 2:48 on the soundtrack with some of the lyrics edited for the film's target audience.

Sympathy (Rare Bird song)

"Sympathy" is a 1970 song by English rock band Rare Bird. Although the song reached #27 in the UK, it became a hit in continental Europe and sold one million copies worldwide. The song was also recorded by Steve Rowland and The Family Dogg and Marillion. It was also recorded by Daliah Lavi in English and German language.

The cover art features a painting by Marc Harrison titled The Birdwoman Of Zartacla (later also used for the cover of the June 1981 issue of the Heavy Metal magazine).

Sympathy (music)

Sympathy ( Greek συμπάθεια (sympatheia), from σύν (syn) "together" and πάθος (pathos) "passion", in this case an affection) is a short piece of instrumental, music, a type of bagatelle, that at the same time is a homage, a requiem for a special person.

Sympathy

Sympathy (from the Greek words syn "together" and pathos "feeling" which means "fellow-feeling") is the perception, understanding, and reaction to the distress or need of another life form. This empathic concern is driven by a switch in viewpoint, from a personal perspective to the perspective of another group or individual who is in need. Empathy and sympathy are often used interchangeably. Sympathy is a feeling, but the two terms have distinct origins and meanings. Merriam Webster defines empathy as "the feeling that you understand and share another person's experiences and emotions : the ability to share someone else's feelings." Their definition of sympathy is "the feeling that you care about and are sorry about someone else's trouble, grief, misfortune, etc. : a feeling of support for something : a state in which different people share the same interests, opinions, goals, etc." See professor Paul Bloom on empathy.

Sympathy (band)

Sympathy is a blackened death metal band from Canada, formed in 1991. Sympathy got some notable attention in the Benelux, Germany and Switzerland as those are the countries where their previous label Fear Dark is usually marketing its bands. The band is known for its professional musicianship. Sympathy's albums are distributed in the United States, Europe and Canada through Displeased Records, Deadsun Records, Megarock Records, Facedown Records and The Omega Distribution. Their lyrical themes tend to revolve around subjects such as theology, philosophy, and death. They have released three albums, Invocation, Arcane Path and an EP titled Abyssal Throne. On February 19, 2008, the band was signed to Bombworks Records. The third album titled Anagogic Tyranny was released on November 11, 2008.

Sympathy (Uriah Heep song)

Sympathy is a song by English rock band Uriah Heep which was originally released on their tenth studio album " Firefly" in 1976.The song has been written by Ken Hensley and sung by John Lawton. Later the same year the song has been released as the second and last single from the album. It is also the first single ever with John Lawton that has charted it took place at #37 in Germany. The song was recorded and mixed at Roundhouse Recording studios in London between October and November 1976, then was released subsequently on the album December 7, 1976, one day before beginning their U.S. tour in support of Kiss in Macon, Georgia.* The song has been written in the key of D minor.

  • GunHill made a live cover of the song in 1999
Sympathy (Raphe Malik album)

Sympathy is an album by American jazz trumpeter Raphe Malik featuring a trio with multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee and drummer Donald Robinson, which was recorded in 2002 and released on the Boxholder label.

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Usage examples of "sympathy".

Greek Revolution and that his own advocacy of the cause would have to focus more on stimulating private American support and stronger popular sympathy for the suffering Greek people.

Fathom, believing that now was the season for working upon her passions, while they were all in commotion, became, if possible, more assiduous than ever about the fair mourner, modelled his features into a melancholy cast, pretended to share her distress with the most emphatic sympathy, and endeavoured to keep her resentment glowing by cunning insinuations, which, though apparently designed to apologise for his friend, served only to aggravate the guilt of his perfidy and dishonour.

Whiteside was regarded as having too much of the clever, eloquent, fiery Irish agitator in his own constitution, not to have some complaisant sympathy with such qualities in his countrymen.

When it was over and Thure and Bud again gave their attention to the court, Bill Ugger was about to continue with his testimony, the majority of the crowd having shown themselves so plainly in sympathy with the actions of the alcalde that the rougher ones evidently thought it wise to keep quiet.

Jefferson Davis, his earnest championship of universal amnesty, and his expressed sympathy with the grievances of the old ruling element of the slave States, had created a kindly impression in that section.

Let him take it for granted in the fashion of the strictly aesthetic commentator who writes in sympathy with a Fra Angelico painting, or as that great modernist, Paul Sabatier, does as he approaches the problems of faith in the life of St.

That minor impediment is why I feel some slight sympathy for you, Apropos, believe it or not.

Then Madame Aubain had a fainting spell, and that evening all her friends, including the two Lormeaus, Madame Lechaptois, the ladies Rochefeuille, Messieurs de Houppeville and Bourais, called on her and tendered their sympathy.

I uttered some expressions of sympathy, and the boor did not take the trouble to answer me, but I was avenged for his foolish stiffness by the enthusiasm with which I was welcomed by everyone else.

Fairy and Babbie in the next room talked incessantly, laughing often and long, and Prudence, hearing, smiled in sympathy.

Talking with her about Batman right now would feel too much like a play for sympathy.

He began to offer his sympathy, and, genuine or not, I was pleased with it.

I burst into tears, and begged her pardon in so truly repentant a voice that sympathy made her mingle her tears with mine.

These came armed with ferules and birchen rods, being a race of schoolmasters, who first discovered the marvelous sympathy between the seat of honor and the seat of intellect,--and that the shortest way to get knowledge into the head was to hammer it into the bottom.

The women, above all, manifested a lively and tender sympathy for Boule de Suif.