Word Meanings - SYMPATHIZE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. 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. Buckminster. 2. To feel in consequence

Additional info about word: SYMPATHIZE

1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. 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. Buckminster. 2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected. Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures. Addison. 3. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize. Dryden.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SYMPATHIZE)

• Commiserate
• Despise
• contemn
• pity
• compassionate
• condole
• sympathize
• Condole
• Sympathize
• console
• commiserate
• Fraternize
• consort
• co-operate
• associate with

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SYMPATHIZE)

• Avoid
• abandon
• excommunicate
• blackball
• banish
• exclude

Related words: (words related to SYMPATHIZE)

• CONDOLER
  One who condoles.
• COMPASSIONATELY
  In a compassionate manner; mercifully. Clarendon.
• CONSORTSHIP
  The condition of a consort; fellowship; partnership. Hammond.
• CONSORT
  A ship keeping company with another. 3. Concurrence; conjunction; combination; association; union. "By Heaven's consort." Fuller. "Working in consort." Hare. Take it singly, and is carries an air of levity; but, in consort with the rest,
• SYMPATHIZE
  1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. 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. Buckminster. 2. To feel in consequence
• ASSOCIATE
  1. To join with one, as a friend, companion, partner, or confederate; as, to associate others with . 2. To join or connect; to combine in acting; as, particles of gold associated with other substances. 3. To connect or place together in thought.
• CONTEMNER
  One who contemns; a despiser; a scorner. "Contemners of the gods." South.
• CONSORTABLE
  Suitable for association or companionship. Sir H. Wotton.
• AVOIDLESS
  Unavoidable; inevitable.
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• SYMPATHIZER
  One who sympathizes.
• AVOIDANCE
  1. The act of annulling; annulment. 2. The act of becoming vacant, or the state of being vacant; -- specifically used for the state of a benefice becoming void by the death, deprivation, or resignation of the incumbent. Wolsey, . . .
• EXCLUDE
  Etym: 1. To shut out; to hinder from entrance or admission; to debar from participation or enjoyment; to deprive of; to except; -- the opposite to admit; as, to exclude a crowd from a room or house; to exclude the light; to exclude one nation from
• DESPISEMENT
  A despising. Holland.
• ASSOCIATESHIP
  The state of an associate, as in Academy or an office.
• CONTEMN
  To view or treat with contempt, as mean and despicable; to reject with disdain; to despise; to scorn. Thy pompous delicacies I contemn. Milton. One who contemned divine and human laws. Dryden. Syn. -- To despise; scorn; disdain; spurn;
• AVOIDER
  1. The person who carries anything away, or the vessel in which things are carried away. Johnson. 2. One who avoids, shuns, or escapes.
• BANISHMENT
  The act of banishing, or the state of being banished. He secured himself by the banishment of his enemies. Johnson. Round the wide world in banishment we roam. Dryden. Syn. -- Expatriation; ostracism; expulsion; proscription; exile; outlawry.
• DESPISE
  To look down upon with disfavor or contempt; to contemn; to scorn; to disdain; to have a low opinion or contemptuous dislike of. Fools despise wisdom and instruction. Prov. i. 7. Men naturally despise those who court them, but respect those who
• FRATERNIZER
  One who fraternizes. Burke.
• INCOMPASSIONATE
  Not compassionate; void of pity or of tenderness; remorseless. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ly, adv. -- In`com*pas"sion*ate*ness, n.
• UNAVOIDED
  1. Not avoided or shunned. Shak. 2. Unavoidable; inevitable. B. Jonson.
• REBANISH
  To banish again.