Another word for sympathize | Synonyms for sympathize

Another word for sympathize

sympathize Synonyms

sympathize

v.

condole, commiserate, pity, show mercy, show tenderness, comfort, understand, be understanding, love, be kind to, show kindliness, share another's sorrow, express sympathy, feel sorry for, be sympathetic.

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Another word for sympathize

verb

To experience or express compassion:
ache, commiserate, compassionate, feel, pity, yearn. Idioms: be sorry, have (or take) pity. See pity
To understand or be sensitive to another's feelings or ideas:
empathize. See understand
To associate or affiliate oneself closely with a person or group:
empathize, identify, relate. See same

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Look, I can sympathize with you, but there's nothing I can do, at least not yet.
She thought: "If I seem not to notice he will think that I do not sympathize with him; if I seem sad and out of spirits myself, he will say (as he has done before) that I'm in the dumps."
Palmerston sympathized, or was supposed to sympathize, openly with the revolutionary party abroad.
When the effort to restrain feeling is exhibited in a degree which surprises as well as pleases, it excites admiration as a virtue or excellence; such excellences Adam Smith quaintly calls the " awful and respectable," contrasting them with the " amiable virtues " which consist in the opposite effort to sympathize, when exhibited in a remarkable degree.
It was as if Prince Andrew would have liked to sympathize with what Pierre was saying, but could not.

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