sympathize
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: derivation
Etymology: Borrowed from French sympathiser. By surface analysis, sympathy + -ize. Displaced native Old English efnþrōwian (literally “to suffer with or together”).
Inflected forms:
form: sympathizes
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sympathizing
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: sympathized
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: sympathized
pos: verb
tags: past
form: sympathise
pos: verb
tags: alternative
UK
Senses:
gloss: To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
examples: […] the Authors having chosen for their Heroes Persons who were so nearly related to the People for whom they wrote. Achilles was a Greek, and Aeneas the remote Founder of Rome. By this Means their Countrymen (whom they principally proposed to themselves for their Readers) were particularly attentive to all the Parts of their Story, and sympathized with their Heroes in all their Adventures.
Some old people keep young at heart in spite of wrinkles and gray hairs, can sympathize with children’s little cares and joys, make them feel at home, and can hide wise lessons under pleasant plays, giving and receiving friendship in the sweetest way.
“I can’t quite sympathise with your mother in all her feelings about this marriage, because I do not think that I recognise as she does the necessity of money.”
The wives were sympathizing with each other in slightly raised voices.
gloss: To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
examples: ‘[…] who is to hunt up my witnesses? All of them are sailors, drafted off to other ships, except those whose evidence would go for very little, as they took part, or sympathised in the affair. […]’
“Whether one sympathises with the agitation for female suffrage or not one has to admit that its promoters showed tireless energy and considerable enterprise in devising and putting into action new methods for accomplishing their ends. […]”
[…] naturally the British aristocracy sympathized with the Confederacy, as one aristocrat with another, against a race of dollar lovers like the Yankees.
He’d go to […] Soviet Russia—now giving us the whole story, that he sympathized with the Reds and admired Lenin […]
President Obama in a speech this past week said that we should solve the nation's bee problem. Oh, God, we elected a guy who sympathizes with bees?
gloss: To say in an expression of sympathy.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
transitive
examples: “How much he slapped my sons—you should see their swollen faces, Panditji,” said Dukhi. […]
“Poor children,” sympathized Pandit Lallaram.
gloss: To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
examples: […] the mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be […] too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
gloss: To share (a feeling or experience).
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
obsolete
transitive
examples: And all that are assembled in this place,
That by this sympathized one day’s error
Have suffer’d wrong, go keep us company,
And we shall make full satisfaction.
gloss: To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
pos: verb
tags: Canada
US
intransitive
examples: Henry V. The southern wind
Doth play the trumpet to his purposes,
And by his hollow whistling in the leaves
Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.
Henry IV. Then with the losers let it sympathize,
For nothing can seem foul to those that win.
It was the Winter wilde.
While the Heav’n-born-childe,
All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies:
Nature in aw to him
Had doff't her gawdy trim,
With her great Maſter ſo to ſympathize:
It was no ſeaſon then for her
To wanton with the Sun her luſty Paramour.
Green, for example, is a pleasing Colour, which may come from a blue and a yellow mix’d together, and by consequence blue and yellow are two Colours which sympathize:
Then personal appearance sympathised with mental deterioration: he acquired a slouching gait and ignoble look; his naturally reserved disposition was exaggerated into an almost idiotic excess of unsociable moroseness […]
Related words: sympathetic
sympathy
Derived words: himpathize
oversympathize
sympathizable
sympathizer
sympathizingly
unsympathized
unsympathizer
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: تَعَاطَفَ
roman: taʕāṭafa
lang: Bulgarian
word: симпатизирам
roman: simpatiziram
lang: Catalan
word: simpatitzar
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 同情
roman: tóngqíng
lang: Czech
word: soucítit
lang: Finnish
word: tuntea myötätuntoa
lang: Finnish
word: myötäelää
lang: French
word: compatir
lang: French
word: s'apitoyer
lang: Galician
word: simpatizar
lang: German
word: mitfühlen
lang: Greek
word: συμπάσχω
roman: sympáscho
lang: Ancient Greek
word: συμπαθέω
roman: sumpathéō
lang: Hebrew
word: סִמְפֵּת
roman: simpét
lang: Hungarian
word: együttérez
lang: Hungarian
word: megért
lang: Hungarian
word: (mély) együttérzést tanúsít
lang: Italian
word: simpatizzare
lang: Japanese
word: 同情する
roman: dōjō suru
lang: Latin
word: misereō
lang: Latin
word: miserō
lang: Latin
word: monstrō compassiōnem
lang: Malay
word: bersimpati
lang: Old English
word: efnþrōwian
lang: Portuguese
word: simpatizar
lang: Portuguese
word: solidarizar-se
lang: Russian
word: сочу́вствовать
roman: sočúvstvovatʹ
lang: Russian
word: симпатизи́ровать
roman: simpatizírovatʹ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: suosjećati
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: saosećati
lang: Spanish
word: simpatizar
lang: Urdu
word: ہَمدَردی کَرنا
roman: hamdardī karnā