Sympathy - definition, pronunciation, transcription
noun
- sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
- a relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
Extra examples
She went to her best friend for sympathy.
Letters of sympathy were sent to the families of the victims.
My deepest sympathies go out to the families of the victims.
Our sympathies are with them.
There was no sympathy between them.
Please, accept our deepest sympathy.
We did it out of sympathy for your family.
You have my sympathies. / My sympathies are with you.
Her sympathy eased the hurt he felt after his dog's death.
Many people sent cards and flowers in demonstration of their sympathy.
To convey sympathy to a bereaved parent by telephone struck him as maladroit ...
He has generous sympathy for unemployed workers.
She's been unable to elicit much sympathy from the public.
There's a sense of sympathy and fellow feeling among members of the group.
They hugged each other in mute sympathy.
Word forms
singular: sympathy
plural: sympathies
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