Thesaurus
sympathetic
Synonyms and Antonyms of sympathetic
- a sympathetic smile
- needed a sympathetic listener who would understand her marital woes
feeling, perceptive, sensitive
considerate, gentle, softhearted, tender, tenderhearted, warm, warmhearted
benevolent, benignant, bighearted, charitable, kind, kindhearted, kindly, largehearted, magnanimous
clement, lenient, merciful, tolerant
congenial, cordial, friendly, genial, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, well-disposed
inconsiderate, insensitive, thoughtless, unthinking
aloof, cool, indifferent, uncaring, uninterested
unaffectionate, unfriendly, unloving
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, virulent
- a sympathetic store manager who let us use the telephone
- sympathetic letters from supporters after the disappointing verdict
attentive, considerate, solicitous, thoughtful
affable, amicable, benign, companionable, comradely, cordial, friendly, genial, gentle, good, good-natured, good-tempered, gracious, mild, neighborly, nice, pleasant, sweet, warm
clement, forbearing, forgiving, lenient, merciful, soft
patient, pitying, tolerant, understanding
altruistic, brotherly, charitable, freehanded, generous, greathearted, humanitarian, liberal, magnanimous, munificent, noble, openhearted, philanthropic (also philanthropical), selfless, unselfish, unsparing
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