sympathy
Definitions
Noun
- An inclination to support or be loyal to or to agree with an opinion
- Sharing the feelings of others (especially feelings of sorrow or anguish)
- A relation of affinity or harmony between people; whatever affects one correspondingly affects the other
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Words that sound like the term "sympathy".
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Words that are spelled similarly to the term "sympathy".
| # | Word | Syllables | Freq |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sympathetic | 4 | 35 |
| 2 | symphony | 3 | 33 |
| 3 | sympathies | 3 | 8 |
| 4 | sympathize | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | apathy | 3 | 3 |
| 6 | empathy | 3 | 1 |
| 7 | sympathized | 3 | 1 |
| 8 | sympathizing | 4 | 1 |
| 9 | spath | 1 | 0 |
| 10 | mathy | 2 | 0 |
| 11 | sympathizes | 4 | 0 |
| 12 | sympathizer | 4 | 0 |
| 13 | psychopathy | 4 | 0 |
| 14 | spaeth | 1 | 0 |
| 15 | smarty | 2 | 0 |
| 16 | patchy | 2 | 0 |
| 17 | mathys | 2 | 0 |
| 18 | mathey | 2 | 0 |
| 19 | empath | 2 | 0 |
| 20 | sympathizers | 4 | 0 |
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| 1 | sympathy for | 1 | 2 |
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Term
Definitions: 3
Fragments: 1
Sound Alikes: 0
Spelled Like: 20
Words that Follow: 1
Words that Precede: 0
Statistically Associated: 0
Consonant Matches: 0
Freq: The frequency is a relative score of how often the word appears in standard English text.
📰 This Word in the News:
Newton Emerson: Striking lawyers don’t tend to evoke much public sympathy
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