sympathetic
/ˌsɪm.pəˈθɛt.ɪk/ adjetivo B2En español: simpatético, simpatizador, simpático
- Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy. · John looked very upset. I gave him a sympathetic look.
- Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.
- Attracting the liking of others. (of a person)
- Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.
- Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association. · Sympathetic magic is based on imitation or correspondence.· sympathetic ink
- A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. (of magic)
- Relating to musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration or to strings so tuned as to sound by sympathetic vibration.
- Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves. · Sympathetic innervation involves epinephrine.
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“Ah, count,” said Albert, “I assure you Madame de Morcerf speaks freely to me, and if you have not felt those sympathetic fibres of which I spoke just now thrill within you, you must be entirely devoid of them, for during the last four days we have spoken of no one else.”
Matthew is such a sympathetic listener.
And you needn’t stop to discourse with sympathetic listeners on your way, either.
With resentful eyes and passion-red cheeks she confronted alike Diana’s sympathetic gaze and Charlie Sloane’s indignant nods and Josie Pye’s malicious smiles.
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