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# sympathy

noun (sympathy — usually uncountable; sympathies)

«sympathy» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone who is sad, hurt or in trouble, and showing that you care. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#m1)
2. Sympathy can mean agreeing with or supporting someone's ideas or side: I have some sympathy with his view. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#m2)
3. (formal) «Sympathies» are the kind words you send when someone has died: «with deepest sympathy». [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x1)
- We sent Mrs Jones a sympathy card. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x2)
- The children showed sympathy for the new girl who was lonely. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x3)
- He got no sympathy from his sister when he complained. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x4)
- I have some sympathy with your idea. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x5)
- Please accept our deepest sympathy. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x6)
- But Jupiter had little sympathy for him. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x7)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «sympathy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«sympathy» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/sympathy.html) on Mova free.