Definition of empathetic
:involving, characterized by, or based on empathy
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an empathetic social worker who soon realized that the single mother was at her breaking point
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Whether because the filters work, or because humans can be empathetic sometimes, even online, there wasn’t a single snarky line or joke in the first few days.
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In addition to Caesar, many favorites from the other movies return, the loveliest among them the empathetic orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval).
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Mills, DerHovsepian and Taylor were jointed by Japanese pianist Rieko Aizawa for a distinctive and empathetic performance.
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In addition to Caesar, many old favorites from the other movies return, the loveliest among them the empathetic orangutan Maurice (Karin Konoval): His gentle soul shines through his luminous pie plate of a face.
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Hopefully that can give them some positive energy and help them influence other people in society to become more empathetic.
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Standing outside the doorway wouldn’t be properly empathetic, Nelson said.
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Did the Harry Potter series produce a generation of empathetic individuals?
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy organized dozens of empathetic monuments throughout the South, including Florida, from the late 1880s through World War I. They can be found in public spaces in Bradenton, Brooksville and Lakeland.
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First Known Use of empathetic
1912
empathetic Synonyms
Synonyms
commiserative, compassionate, sympathetic, empathic, humane, understandingAntonyms
callous, cold-blooded, coldhearted, hard, hard-hearted, heartless, inhuman, inhumane, insensate, obdurate, unfeeling, unsympatheticRelated Words
feeling, perceptive, sensitive; considerate, gentle, softhearted, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted; benevolent, benignant, bighearted, charitable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, largehearted, magnanimous; clement, lenient, merciful, tolerant; pitying, ruthful; congenial, cordial, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, well-disposed; affectionate, lovingNear Antonyms
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, unthinking; aloof, cool, indifferent, uncaring, uninterested; unaffectionate, unfriendly, unloving; merciless, pitiless, ruthless; bigoted, blinkered, narrow-minded, small-minded; brutal, grim, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, harsh, oppressive, rough, severe, stern, tough, ungentle, unrelenting; abusive, acrimonious, disagreeable, hateful, hostile, ill-natured, ill-tempered, malevolent, malicious, mean, rancorous, spiteful, surly, unkind, virulentOther Psychology Terms
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