sympathy

«sympathy» in Mova's school dictionary: feeling sorry for someone who is sad, hurt or in trouble… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (sympathy — usually uncountable; sympathies)

meaning for a pupil

1) Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone who is sad, hurt or in trouble, and showing that you care. tree →

2) Sympathy can mean agreeing with or supporting someone's ideas or side: I have some sympathy with his view. tree →

3) (formal) «Sympathies» are the kind words you send when someone has died: «with deepest sympathy». tree →

sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it is a caring feeling: we feel sympathy for someone who is ill or has lost a pet. Phrases: feel sympathy for, have sympathy with, a sympathy card, out of sympathy, our sympathies.

examples

• I felt great sympathy for Sam when his dog died. tree →
• We sent Mrs Jones a sympathy card. tree →
• The children showed sympathy for the new girl who was lonely. tree →
• He got no sympathy from his sister when he complained. tree →
• I have some sympathy with your idea. tree →
• Please accept our deepest sympathy. tree →
• But Jupiter had little sympathy for him. tree →

note

Usually uncountable: «a lot of sympathy». Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone; empathy is imagining how they feel from the inside. Not the same as «pity», which can sound like looking down on someone. Adjective: sympathetic (kind, caring) — in Ukrainian «симпатичний» means «nice-looking», a false friend.

In the corpora

• "At rest" means dead; it is written on graves and in sympathy cards.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sympathy» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.