Definition of Sympathizer

1. Noun. Commiserates with someone who has had misfortune.

Exact synonyms: Comforter, Sympathiser
Generic synonyms: Communicator
Specialized synonyms: Job's Comforter
Derivative terms: Comfort, Sympathise, Sympathize

2. Noun. Someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful.
Exact synonyms: Sympathiser, Well-wisher
Specialized synonyms: Bleeding Heart, Fellow Traveler, Fellow Traveller
Generic synonyms: Admirer, Booster, Champion, Friend, Protagonist, Supporter
Derivative terms: Sympathise, Sympathize

Definition of Sympathizer

1. n. One who sympathizes.

Definition of Sympathizer

1. Adjective. Who sympathizes (with something). ¹

2. Noun. A person who sympathizes (with something). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sympathizer

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sympathizer

sympathies
sympathin
sympathins
sympathise
sympathised
sympathiser
sympathisers
sympathises
sympathising
sympathisingly
sympathist
sympathists
sympathize
sympathize with
sympathized
sympathizer (current term)
sympathizers
sympathizes
sympathizing
sympathizingly
sympathoadrenomedullary
sympathoexcitation
sympathoexcitatory
sympatholytic
sympatholytics
sympathomimetic
sympathomimetics
sympathovagal
sympathy
sympathy card

Literary usage of Sympathizer

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

1. Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question: Including the Controversy by Matthew Mark Trumbull (1890)
"The first witness offered by sympathizer for the defense is a farmer, ... sympathizer v/ent to the wrong farmer. He should have gone to one of those ..."

2. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"... on of Governor and Representatives.—Thanksgiving Day 's Proclamation.—Absence of Pauperism.—Irish Repeal -w England sympathizer. ..."

3. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"In 1860 he went to Lexington, Ky., where, after the outbreak of the War of Secession, he was imprisoned for a year as a Southern sympathizer. ..."

4. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1868)
"Sympathy is, indirectly, a source of pleasure to the sympathizer. Indirectly, however, the giving of sympathy, as well as the receiving of it, ..."

5. Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics by Alexander Bain (1868)
"Sympathy is, indirectly, a source of pleasure to the sympathizer. If the view here taken be correct, the disposition to sympathize with, and to act for, ..."

6. Articles and Discussions on the Labor Question: Including the Controversy by Matthew Mark Trumbull (1890)
"The first witness offered by sympathizer for the defense is a farmer, ... sympathizer v/ent to the wrong farmer. He should have gone to one of those ..."

7. A Second Visit to the United States of North America by Charles Lyell (1849)
"... on of Governor and Representatives.—Thanksgiving Day 's Proclamation.—Absence of Pauperism.—Irish Repeal -w England sympathizer. ..."

8. The South in the Building of the Nation: A History of the Southern States by Walter Lynwood Fleming (1909)
"In 1860 he went to Lexington, Ky., where, after the outbreak of the War of Secession, he was imprisoned for a year as a Southern sympathizer. ..."

9. Mental Science: A Compendium of Psychology, and the History of Philosophy by Alexander Bain (1868)
"Sympathy is, indirectly, a source of pleasure to the sympathizer. Indirectly, however, the giving of sympathy, as well as the receiving of it, ..."

10. Mental and Moral Science: A Compendium of Psychology and Ethics by Alexander Bain (1868)
"Sympathy is, indirectly, a source of pleasure to the sympathizer. If the view here taken be correct, the disposition to sympathize with, and to act for, ..."

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