Word Meanings - SYMPATHETIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --

Additional info about word: SYMPATHETIC

1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy. Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber. Sympathetic ink. See under Ink. -- Sympathetic nerve , any nerve of the sympathetic system; especially, the axial chain of ganglions and nerves belonging to the sympathetic system. -- Sympathetic powder , a kind of powder long supposed to be able to cure a wound if applied to the weapon that inflicted it, or even to a portion of the bloody clothes. Dunglison. -- Sympathetic sounds , sounds produced from solid bodies by means of vibrations which have been communicated to them from some other sounding body, by means of the air or an intervening solid. -- Sympathetic system , a system of nerves and nerve ganglions connected with the alimentary canal, the vascular system, and the glandular organs of most vertebrates, and controlling more or less their actions. The axial part of the system and its principal ganglions and nerves are situated in the body cavity and form a chain of ganglions on each side of the vertebral column connected with numerous other ganglions and nerve plexuses.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SYMPATHETIC)

• Akin
• Related
• agnate
• cognate
• homogeneous
• similar
• consanguineous
• congenial
• allied
• sympathetic
• Congenial
• Natural
• concordant
• consonant
• grateful
• kindred
• Responsive
• Answering
• correspondent
• echoing
• obedient

Related words: (words related to SYMPATHETIC)

• CONSONANT
  An articulate sound which in utterance is usually combined and sounded with an open sound called a vowel; a member of the spoken alphabet other than a vowel; also, a letter or character representing such a sound. Note: Consonants are divided into
• SYMPATHETIC
  1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. 2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. Produced by sympathy; --
• RELATIONSHIP
  The state of being related by kindred, affinity, or other alliance. Mason.
• ECHOLESS
  Without echo or response.
• NATURALIST
  1. One versed in natural science; a student of natural history, esp. of the natural history of animals. 2. One who holds or maintains the doctrine of naturalism in religion. H. Bushnell.
• ALLICIENT
  That attracts; attracting. -- n.
• ALLINEATION; ALINEEATION
  Alignment; position in a straight line, as of two planets with the sun. Whewell. The allineation of the two planets. C. A. Young.
• NATURAL STEEL
  Steel made by the direct refining of cast iron in a finery, or, as wootz, by a direct process from the ore.
• ALLITERAL
  Pertaining to, or characterized by alliteration.
• HOMOGENEOUSNESS
  Sameness 9kind or nature; uniformity of structure or material.
• CONCORDANT
  Agreeing; correspondent; harmonious; consonant. Were every one employed in points concordant to their natures, professions, and arts, commonwealths would rise up of themselves. Sir T. Browne
• ALLITERATOR
  One who alliterates.
• ALLIED
  United; joined; leagued; akin; related. See Ally.
• SIMILARY
  Similar. Rhyming cadences of similarly words. South.
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• CONGENIALLY
  In a congenial manner; as, congenially married or employed.
• NATURAL
  Belonging to, to be taken in, or referred to, some system, in which the base is 1; -- said or certain functions or numbers; as, natural numbers, those commencing at 1; natural sines, cosines, etc., those taken in arcs whose radii are 1. (more info)
• ALLICE; ALLIS
  The European shad ; allice shad. See Alose.
• RELATIVELY
  In a relative manner; in relation or respect to something else; not absolutely. Consider the absolute affections of any being as it is in itself, before you consider it relatively. I. Watts.
• GALLIASS
  See GALLEASS
• PRELATIST
  One who supports of advocates prelacy, or the government of the church by prelates; hence, a high-churchman. Hume. I am an Episcopalian, but not a prelatist. T. Scott.
• DALLIANCE
  1. The act of dallying, trifling, or fondling; interchange of caresses; wanton play. Look thou be true, do not give dalliance Too mnch the rein. Shak. O, the dalliance and the wit, The flattery and the strifeTennyson. 2. Delay or procrastination.
• SUPERNATURALNESS
  The quality or state of being supernatural.
• KAKARALLI
  A kind of wood common in Demerara, durable in salt water, because not subject to the depredations of the sea worm and barnacle.
• SCALLION
  A kind of small onion , native of Palestine; the eschalot, or shallot. 2. Any onion which does not "bottom out," but remains with a thick stem like a leek. Amer. Cyc.
• CORALLIGENOUS
  producing coral; coraligerous; coralliferous. Humble.
• REALLIANCE
  A renewed alliance.
• IMPALLID
  To make pallid; to blanch. Feltham.
• HEMEROCALLIS
  A genus of plants, some species of which are cultivated for their beautiful flowers; day lily.
• HAEMATOCRYSTALLIN
  See HEMATOCRYSTALLIN
• PRELATISM
  Prelacy; episcopacy.
• PRETERNATURALITY
  Preternaturalness. Dr. John Smith.
• CRYSTALLIZATION
  The act or process by which a substance in solidifying assumes the form and sructure of a crystal, or becomes crystallized. 2. The body formed by crystallizing; as, silver on precipitation forms arborescent crystallizations. Note: The systems of
• MISALLIED
  Wrongly allied or associated.
• BALLISTER
  A crossbow.