Definition of Sympathetically

1. Adverb. With respect to the sympathetic nervous system. "The stimulus acted sympathetically"

Partainyms: Sympathetic

2. Adverb. In a sympathetic manner. "She listened to him sympathetically"
Exact synonyms: Empathetically
Partainyms: Empathetic, Sympathetic
Antonyms: Unsympathetically

Definition of Sympathetically

1. adv. In a sympathetic manner.

Definition of Sympathetically

1. Adverb. Owing to or showing evidence of "sympathy", or affinity; happening through or demonstrating correspondences, whether occult or physiological. ¹

2. Adverb. In a manner which demonstrates a sharing in the feelings of others; compassionately. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sympathetically

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sympathetically

symmetrizing
symmetrons
symmetry
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symp.
sympathectomies
sympathectomy
sympathetic
sympathetic detonation
sympathetic detonations
sympathetic hyperactivity
sympathetic nervous system
sympathetic strike
sympathetic vibration
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sympathetics
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sympathist
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Literary usage of Sympathetically

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"He hated Covenanters like a good Jacobite, and yet he can describe them kindly and sympathetically. But then he has sympathies which he cannot conceal. ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Shakespeare should think sympathetically and even tenderly of the creed in which his father and mother had been brought up, a creed to which they ..."

3. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Alexander John Ellis (1885)
"In this case, then, the beats are also sympathetically executed by the membrane. Similar drawings again have been made by Dr. Politzer, who attached the ..."

4. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1895)
"In this case, then, the beats are also sympathetically executed by the membrane. ... sympathetically."

5. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"... unless ^j the tones are so near to each other in the scale that they can both make the same elastic appendages of the nerves vibrate sympathetically. ..."

6. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"Treat each pupil sympathetically according to his talents and deficiencies. — From the study of the above paragraphs concerning the original nature of the ..."

7. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"The nervous power, it is true, is the immediate remote cause of all inflammations which spring up sympathetically, but it forms no part of the essential ..."

8. Studies of a Biographer by Leslie Stephen (1902)
"He hated Covenanters like a good Jacobite, and yet he can describe them kindly and sympathetically. But then he has sympathies which he cannot conceal. ..."

9. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... Shakespeare should think sympathetically and even tenderly of the creed in which his father and mother had been brought up, a creed to which they ..."

10. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von Helmholtz, Alexander John Ellis (1885)
"In this case, then, the beats are also sympathetically executed by the membrane. Similar drawings again have been made by Dr. Politzer, who attached the ..."

11. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1895)
"In this case, then, the beats are also sympathetically executed by the membrane. ... sympathetically."

12. On the Sensations of Tone as a Physiological Basis for the Theory of Music by Hermann von Helmholtz (1912)
"... unless ^j the tones are so near to each other in the scale that they can both make the same elastic appendages of the nerves vibrate sympathetically. ..."

13. General Methods of Teaching in Elementary Schools: Including the by Samuel Chester Parker (1919)
"Treat each pupil sympathetically according to his talents and deficiencies. — From the study of the above paragraphs concerning the original nature of the ..."

14. The Institutes of Medicine by Martyn Paine (1862)
"The nervous power, it is true, is the immediate remote cause of all inflammations which spring up sympathetically, but it forms no part of the essential ..."

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