English-Thai Dictionary

sympathetic

ADJ มีใจ เหมือนกัน  เข้าข้าง กัน  เห็นพ้อง กัน  agreeable compassionable like-minded me-jai-muan-kan

 

sympathetic

ADJ เห็นอกเห็นใจ  สงสาร  caring pitying compassionate hen-ok-hen-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SYMPATHETIC, SYMPATHETICAL

a.[See Sympathy. ] 1. Pertaining to sympathy.
2. Having common feeling with another; susceptible of being affected by feelings like those of another, or of feelings inconsequence of what another feels; as a sympathetic heart.
3. Among physicians, produced by sympathy. A sympathetic disease is one which is produced by sympathy, or by a remote cause, as when a fever follows a local injury. In this case, the word is opposed to idiopathetic, which denotes a disease produced by a proximate cause, or an original disease. Thus an epilepsy is sympathetic, when it is produced by some other disease.
4. Among chimists and alchimists, an epithet applied to a kind of powder, possessed of the wonderful property that if spread on a cloth dipped in the blood of a wound, the wound will be healed, though the patient is at a distance. This opinion is discarded as charlatanry.
This epithet is given also to a species of ink or liquor, with which a person may write letters which are not visible till something else is applied.
5. In anatomy, sympathetic is applied to two nerves, from the opinion that their communications are the cause of sympathies. One of these is the great intercostal nerve; the other is the facial nerve.

 

SYMPATHETICALLY

adv. With sympathy or common feeling; inconsequence of sympathy; by communication from something else.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

SYMPATHETIC

Sym `pa *thet "ic, a. Etym: [See Sympathy, and cf. Pathetic. ]

 

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.

 

3. (Physiol.) (a ) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy. (b ) 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. (Chem. ) See under Ink. -- Sympathetic nerve (Anat. ), any nerve of the sympathetic system; especially, the axial chain of ganglions and nerves belonging to the sympathetic system. -- Sympathetic powder (Alchemy ), 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 (Physics ), 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 (Anat. ), 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.

 

SYMPATHETICAL

SYMPATHETICAL Sym `pa *thet "ic *al, a.

 

Defn: Sympathetic.

 

SYMPATHETICALLY

SYMPATHETICALLY Sym `pa *thet "ic *al *ly, adv.

 

Defn: In a sympathetic manner.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

sympathetic

sym pa thet ic |ˌsimpəˈTHetik ˌsɪmpəˈθɛdɪk | ▶adjective 1 feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy: he was sympathetic toward staff with family problems | he spoke in a sympathetic tone. • [ predic. ] showing approval of or favor toward an idea or action: he was sympathetic to evolutionary ideas. 2 pleasant or agreeable, in particular: • (of a person ) attracting the liking of others: Audrey develops as a sympathetic character. • (of a structure ) designed in a sensitive or fitting way: buildings that were sympathetic to their surroundings. 3 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. 4 relating to, producing, or denoting an effect that arises in response to a similar action elsewhere. DERIVATIVES sym pa thet i cal ly |-ik (ə )lē |adverb ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to an affinity or paranormal influence, ’ as in sympathetic magic ): from sympathy, on the pattern of pathetic .

 

sympathetic magic

sym pa thet ic mag ic ▶noun primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought.

 

sympathetic smoker

sym pa thet ic smok er ▶noun a person who smokes only in the company of another smoker.

 

sympathetic string

sym pa thet ic string ▶noun each of a group of additional wire strings fitted to certain stringed instruments to give extra resonance.

 

Oxford Dictionary

sympathetic

sym ¦pa |thet ¦ic |sɪmpəˈθɛtɪk | ▶adjective 1 feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy: she was sympathetic towards staff with family problems | he spoke in a sympathetic tone. 2 showing approval of or favour towards an idea or action: he was sympathetic to evolutionary ideas. 3 (of a person ) attracting the liking of others: Hubbell is a more sympathetic character. • (of a structure ) designed in a sensitive or appropriate way: buildings that were sympathetic to their surroundings. 4 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. 5 relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises in response to a similar action elsewhere. DERIVATIVES sympathetically adverb ORIGIN mid 17th cent. (in the sense ‘relating to an affinity or paranormal influence ’, as in sympathetic magic ): from sympathy, on the pattern of pathetic .

 

sympathetic magic

sym ¦pa |thet ¦ic magic ▶noun [ mass noun ] primitive or magical ritual using objects or actions resembling or symbolically associated with the event or person over which influence is sought.

 

sympathetic smoker

sym pa thet ic smok er ▶noun a person who smokes only in the company of another smoker.

 

sympathetic string

sym ¦pa |thet ¦ic string ▶noun each of a group of additional wire strings fitted to certain stringed instruments to give extra resonance.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

sympathetic

sympathetic adjective 1 a sympathetic listener: compassionate, caring, concerned, solicitous, empathetic, understanding, sensitive; commiserative, pitying, consoling, comforting, supportive, encouraging; considerate, kind, tenderhearted; informal boosterish. ANTONYMS unfeeling. 2 the most sympathetic character in the book: likable, pleasant, agreeable, congenial, friendly, genial, simpatico. ANTONYMS unfriendly. 3 I was sympathetic to his cause: in favor of, in sympathy with, pro, on the side of, supportive of, encouraging of; well-disposed to, favorably disposed to, receptive to. ANTONYMS indifferent, opposed.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

sympathetic

sympathetic adjective 1 a sympathetic listener | the dreaded bank manager often turns out to be highly sympathetic: commiserating, commiserative, pitying, condoling, consoling, comforting, supportive, encouraging; compassionate, caring, concerned, solicitous, empathetic; considerate, kindly, kind, kind-hearted, soft-hearted, tender-hearted, warm, warm-hearted; understanding, sensitive. ANTONYMS unsympathetic, unfeeling. 2 Rudy is the most sympathetic male character in the book: likeable, pleasant, agreeable, congenial, friendly, genial, companionable, easy to get along with; Italian & Spanish simpatico. ANTONYMS unsympathetic, unfriendly. 3 we got along well because I was sympathetic to his cause: in favour of, in sympathy with, approving of, pro, on the side of, supportive of, supporting of, favourable, encouraging of; well disposed to, favourably disposed to, receptive to, responsive to. ANTONYMS unsympathetic, indifferent, opposed.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

sympathetic

sym pa thet ic /sɪ̀mpəθétɪk / (! 強勢は第3音節 ) →sympathy 形容詞 more ～; most ～1 【人などに対して 】思いやりのある , 同情的な «to , toward » ▸ People were sympathetic to the poor .人々は貧しい人に対して同情的だった ▸ lend a sympathetic ear to the troubled 困った人の話に耳をかたむける 2 〖be ～〗【人 提案などに 】共鳴して , 共感して , 好意的な , 賛成の «to , toward » ▸ Sam was sympathetic to [toward ] my proposal .サムは私の提案に共感してくれた 3 最適な , 好条件の ; ｟まれ ｠気の合った ▸ in a sympathetic atmosphere 最適な雰囲気で 4 〘生理 〙交感 (神経 )の ; 〘物理 〙共鳴 [共振 ]する .～̀ f í gure [ch á racter ]読者の心を引き付ける登場人物 .～̀ í nk ＝invisible ink .～̀ m á gic 共感呪 （じゆ ）術 〘関連した動作や関連した物の使用によって影響を及ぼそうとする呪術 〙.～̀ n é rvous (s ỳ stem )〘生理 〙交感神経 (系 ).～̀ str í ke ＝sympathy strike .

 

sympathetically

s ỳ m pa th é t i cal ly /-k (ə )li /副詞 同情して ; 共鳴して .