Sympathize
verb
To share or understand the feelings or thoughts of others.
She began to sympathize with the struggling student.
Often appears as...
- sympathize with someone
- sympathize with a cause
verb
To agree with or support a sentiment, idea or a party.
The protestors sympathized with the worker's strike.
Often appears as...
- sympathize with a cause
- sympathize with a position
verb
To share or understand the feelings or thoughts of others.
She began to sympathize with the struggling student.
Often appears as...
- sympathize with someone
- sympathize with a cause
verb
To agree with or support a sentiment, idea or a party.
The protestors sympathized with the worker's strike.
Often appears as...
- sympathize with a cause
- sympathize with a position
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Pro Tip 1/3Feeling Connection
Use when expressing emotional understanding with someone's situation.
Despite never being poor, he could sympathize with the homeless.
Pro Tip 2/3Supportive Tone
Implies a comforting attitude towards someone else's hardship.
I sympathize with your loss and am here for you.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Necessarily Agreement
Sympathizing doesn't always mean you agree with the reasons behind someone's feelings.
She sympathized with his sadness, though she found his fears unfounded.
Pro Tip 1/3Feeling Connection
Use when expressing emotional understanding with someone's situation.
Despite never being poor, he could sympathize with the homeless.
Pro Tip 2/3Supportive Tone
Implies a comforting attitude towards someone else's hardship.
I sympathize with your loss and am here for you.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Necessarily Agreement
Sympathizing doesn't always mean you agree with the reasons behind someone's feelings.
She sympathized with his sadness, though she found his fears unfounded.
Pro Tip 1/3Feeling Connection
Use when expressing emotional understanding with someone's situation.
Despite never being poor, he could sympathize with the homeless.
Pro Tip 2/3Supportive Tone
Implies a comforting attitude towards someone else's hardship.
I sympathize with your loss and am here for you.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Necessarily Agreement
Sympathizing doesn't always mean you agree with the reasons behind someone's feelings.
She sympathized with his sadness, though she found his fears unfounded.
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The strange story of the...
Americans consider lobsters more important than pigeons but also much, much stupider. Wild turkeys are seen as only slightly more dangerous than sea otters, and pandas are twice as lovable as ladybugs. So some of this is physical, right? We tend to sympathize more with animals that look like us, and especially that resemble human babies,
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Steven Pinker: Human...
so they'll grow up smart. And there are all kinds of play -- clay for finger dexterity, word games for reading success, large motor play, small motor play. I feel like I could devote my life to figuring out what to play with my kids." I think anyone who's recently been a parent can sympathize
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Steven Pinker and...
only of their family and people in their village. But with the expansion of literacy and travel, people started to sympathize with wider and wider circles, the clan, the tribe, the nation, the race, and perhaps eventually, all of humanity. Can hard-headed scientists
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Why sleep matters now...
should look at alternative treatments but certainly I do sort of sympathize and and have empathy with that you know I've experienced that myself and particularly with things like jet lag I certainly will use melatonin to see if I can help and you know if things like
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Can you outsmart a troll...
People are intuitively more inclined to believe information that supports a worldview they already have. Many young voters in your town are in favor of transitioning to renewable energy and sympathize with Greene. Rather than trying to change their minds,
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Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
These shrimp are infected with a tapeworm. A tapeworm is effectively a long, living gut with genitals at one end and a hooked mouth at the other. As a freelance journalist, I sympathize. The tapeworm drains nutrients from Artemia's body,
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Jason McCue: Terrorism...
We're all here, and all of those who watch it are going to be traumatized by this event, but all of you here who are victims are going to learn some hard truths. That is, our society, we sympathize, but after a while,
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Nationalism vs....
There are also many, many positive things about patriotism, and the ability to have a large number of people care about each other, sympathize with one another, and come together for collective action.
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Palenque and the Ancient...
on saw this thing in the summer of 1785 it's how long it took people to figure out to go in there and he he drew this I can sympathize with this this is sort of what I did when I first went to you
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Solar Geo-engineering PIPE...
that I sympathize with all of that and I think it would be great if we lived in the world where people had to get their consent before messing with it but you
Video examples
The strange story of the...
Americans consider lobsters more important than pigeons but also much, much stupider. Wild turkeys are seen as only slightly more dangerous than sea otters, and pandas are twice as lovable as ladybugs. So some of this is physical, right? We tend to sympathize more with animals that look like us, and especially that resemble human babies,
Video examples
Steven Pinker: Human...
so they'll grow up smart. And there are all kinds of play -- clay for finger dexterity, word games for reading success, large motor play, small motor play. I feel like I could devote my life to figuring out what to play with my kids." I think anyone who's recently been a parent can sympathize
Video examples
Steven Pinker and...
only of their family and people in their village. But with the expansion of literacy and travel, people started to sympathize with wider and wider circles, the clan, the tribe, the nation, the race, and perhaps eventually, all of humanity. Can hard-headed scientists
Video examples
Why sleep matters now...
should look at alternative treatments but certainly I do sort of sympathize and and have empathy with that you know I've experienced that myself and particularly with things like jet lag I certainly will use melatonin to see if I can help and you know if things like
Video examples
Can you outsmart a troll...
People are intuitively more inclined to believe information that supports a worldview they already have. Many young voters in your town are in favor of transitioning to renewable energy and sympathize with Greene. Rather than trying to change their minds,
Video examples
Ed Yong: Suicidal wasps,...
These shrimp are infected with a tapeworm. A tapeworm is effectively a long, living gut with genitals at one end and a hooked mouth at the other. As a freelance journalist, I sympathize. The tapeworm drains nutrients from Artemia's body,
Video examples
Jason McCue: Terrorism...
We're all here, and all of those who watch it are going to be traumatized by this event, but all of you here who are victims are going to learn some hard truths. That is, our society, we sympathize, but after a while,
Video examples
Nationalism vs....
There are also many, many positive things about patriotism, and the ability to have a large number of people care about each other, sympathize with one another, and come together for collective action.
Video examples
Palenque and the Ancient...
on saw this thing in the summer of 1785 it's how long it took people to figure out to go in there and he he drew this I can sympathize with this this is sort of what I did when I first went to you
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Solar Geo-engineering PIPE...
that I sympathize with all of that and I think it would be great if we lived in the world where people had to get their consent before messing with it but you
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Quote examples
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.
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Matt McGorry
American Actor
The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.
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George MacDonald
Scottish Novelist
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
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George A. Romero
American Director
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
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Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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John Hawkes
American Actor
I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.
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Hunter Tylo
American Actress
We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
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Karin Slaughter
American Writer
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Mike Tyson
American Boxer
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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Amos Bronson Alcott
American Educator
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Quote examples
Susan Orlean
American Journalist
You may never learn the names of any of the people you talk to in a dog park, even after many, many hours spent there with them, and many hours of conversation. But if - knock on wood - anything should ever happen to your dog, these nameless non-strangers will rally, sympathize, offer to help, and hold your hand. I know this from experience.
Quote examples
Matt McGorry
American Actor
The way I approach any role, whether it's comedy or drama, I like to look for the truth first. I think comedy for the sake of comedy wears dull pretty quickly. You have to ground the character in reality first and allow the audience to sympathize, emphasize and be more invested.
Quote examples
George MacDonald
Scottish Novelist
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
Quote examples
George A. Romero
American Director
My stories are about humans and how they react, or fail to react, or react stupidly. I'm pointing the finger at us, not at the zombies. I try to respect and sympathize with the zombies as much as possible.
Quote examples
Oscar Wilde
Irish Poet
There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
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John Hawkes
American Actor
I think that no matter how dark a person is, the more you learn about them, the more you understand about their life, the more you can sympathize with them or even root for them.
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Hunter Tylo
American Actress
We share responsibility. It's important to have a good spouse; that's where I sympathize with single parents.
Quote examples
Karin Slaughter
American Writer
I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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Mike Tyson
American Boxer
The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
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Amos Bronson Alcott
American Educator
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
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