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Definition: Sympathetic |
SympatheticAdjective1. (physiology; anatomy) or or relating to the sympathetic nervous system; "sympathetic neurons"; "sympathetic stimulation". 2. Expressing or feeling or resulting from sympathy or compassion or friendly fellow feelings; disposed toward; "sympathetic to the students' cause"; "a sympathetic observer"; "a sympathetic gesture". 3. Having similar disposition and tastes; "a compatible married couple"; "with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion". 4. Showing or motivated by sympathy and understanding; "was charitable in his opinions of others"; "kindly criticism"; "a kindly act"; "sympathetic words". 5. (of characters in literature or drama) evoking empathic or sympathetic feelings; "the sympathetic characters in the play". 6. Relating to vibrations that occur as a result of vibrations in a nearby body; "sympathetic vibration". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "sympathetic" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1749. (references) |
Note: Sympathetic \Sym`pa*thet"ic\, adjective. [See Sympathy, and compare to Pathetic.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Relating to or displaying sympathy. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Relating or displaying sympathy. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Synonyms: SympatheticSynonyms: appealing (adj), charitable (adj), compatible (adj), harmonic (adj), kindly (adj), likable (adj), likeable (adj). (additional references) |
| Antonym: unsympathetic (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Benevolence | Phrase: " act a charity sometimes "; " a tender heart, a will inflexible "; de mortuis nil nisi bonum; " kind words are more than coronets "; quando amigo pide no hay manana; " the social smile, the sympathetic tear ". |
Good-natured, well-natured; spleenless; sympathizing, sympathetic; complaisant; (courteous); well-meant, well-intentioned. | |
Friendship | Adjective: friendly; amicable, amical; well-affected, unhostile, neighborly, brotherly, fraternal, sympathetic, harmonious, hearty, cordial, warm-hearted. |
Love | Affectionate, tender, sweet upon, sympathetic, loving; amorous, amatory; fond, erotic, uxorious, ardent, passionate, rapturous, devoted, motherly. |
Pity | Adjective: pitying; Verb: pitiful, compassionate, sympathetic, touched. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | I have never been sympathetic to the caricaturing of the poor and nedy, sir. (Sullivan's Travels; writing credit: Preston Sturges) | |
Lyrics | Look around you, all you see are sympathetic eyes (MRS. ROBINSON; performing artist: Simon and Garfunkel) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Euripides | Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. |
George Eliot | Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths. |
Homer | A sympathetic friend can be quite as dear as a brother. |
Ralph Nader | This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations. |
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Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | She shuddered to believe, yet could not help believing, that it gave her a sympathetic knowledge of the hidden sin in other hearts. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It should be composed of the past and be historic, of the future and be sympathetic. |
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Health | Surgical blocks are performed on cranial, peripheral, or sympathetic nerves. (references) | |
Dysautonomia can be local, as in reflex sympathetic dystrophy, or generalized, as in pure autonomic failure. (references) | ||
In addition, NINDS-supported scientists are studying how signals of the sympathetic nervous system cause pain in RSDS patients. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Maldives | Nonetheless, these sympathetic outlets do on occasion strongly criticize the Government. (references) |
Kenya | Students claim that the Government interferes in student elections to ensure sympathetic student leaders. (references) | |
Ethiopia | In December Wegahta, which was highly critical of the ruling party and was alleged to be sympathetic to a splinter group of the TPLF, closed. (references) | |
Economic History | Fiji | Other Pacific Island governments have generally been sympathetic to Fiji's internal political problems and have declined to take public positions. (references) |
Malta | The United States has been sympathetic to Malta's campaign to attract private investment, and some firms operating in Malta have U.S. ownership or investment. (references) | |
Chad | Labor courts are also perceived to be quite sympathetic to workers, so it is important for companies to rigorously follow legal requirements for hiring and especially for firing of workers. (references) | |
Human Rights | Angola | Although there were unconfirmed reports that UNITA killed 150 persons while passing through the area, other observers claimed that these persons were killed by the Government for being too sympathetic to UNITA. (references) |
Zimbabwe | On October 2, a newly constituted Supreme Court, with justices considered more sympathetic to the ruling party, granted the Government an interim relief order that allowed it to proceed with its controversial land acquisition program. (references) | |
Togo | In its final report released in February, the U.N./OAU Commission of Inquiry reported the disappearance of the following six persons, previously unreported, each of whom was last seen under arrest by security forces in 1998: Koffi "Hitler" Akakpossa, last seen on December 22; Nicolas Assiongbon, last seen in October; Adrisse "Ringo" Djiewone, last seen on August 10; Yao Homawoo, last seen February 8; Kokou Akakpo, last seen February 7; Eugene Senyo, last seen February 7. There were no developments in the 1994 disappearance of David Bruce, a high-level Foreign Ministry employee sympathetic to the opposition, which remained under investigation by the Government. (references) | |
Political Economy | Japan | Many Diet members are former ministry bureaucrats who are sympathetic to the bureaucratic interests of their former ministry. (references) |
Zimbabwe | It forced the Chief Justice into early retirement and replaced him with someone widely considered sympathetic to the ruling party's political agenda. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | Ruling party supporters and war veterans, with material support from the Government, expanded their occupation of commercial farms, and in some cases killed, abducted, tortured, beat, abused, raped, and threatened farm owners, their workers, opposition party members, and other persons believed to be sympathetic to the opposition. (references) | |
Political Rights | Uzbekistan | However, the parties that competed in the parliamentary elections, as well as the numerous independent candidates, were sympathetic to the Government and did not represent a real choice for voters. (references) |
Worker Rights | Belize | Although no unions are affiliated officially with political parties, several are sympathetic to one or the other of the two main parties (the PUP and the UDP). (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | SATIRE, n. An obsolete kind of literary composition in which the vices and follies of the author's enemies were expounded with imperfect tenderness. In this country satire never had more than a sickly and uncertain existence, for the soul of it is wit, wherein we are dolefully deficient, the humor that we mistake for it, like all humor, being tolerant and sympathetic. Moreover, although Americans are "endowed by their Creator" with abundant vice and folly, it is not generally known that these are reprehensible qualities, wherefore the satirist is popularly regarded as a soul-spirited knave, and his ever victim's outcry for codefendants evokes a national assent. Hail Satire! be thy praises ever sung In the dead language of a mummy's tongue, For thou thyself art dead, and damned as well -- Thy spirit (usefully employed) in Hell. Had it been such as consecrates the Bible Thou hadst not perished by the law of libel. Barney Stims |
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Dennis Miller | I've always been sympathetic to women's dilemmas because, coming of age in the seventies, I quickly caught on that women wanted it all. |
Michael J. Fox | Well, I think what happened with me was again the reaction that I got, and the way that people responded were so empathetic, and not sympathetic, but empathetic, and there was a real desire on the part of the people to learn about it. |
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| "Sympathetic" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.72% of the time. "Sympathetic" is used about 1,428 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 99.72% | 1,424 | 5,647 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (singular) | 0.14% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,428 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "sympathetic": Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy ♦ sympathetic blocking agents ♦ sympathetic damage ♦ sympathetic detonation ♦ sympathetic heart ♦ sympathetic ink ♦ sympathetic landscape ♦ sympathetic nerve ♦ Sympathetic Nervous System ♦ sympathetic ophthalmia ♦ sympathetic powder ♦ sympathetic sounds ♦ sympathetic strike ♦ sympathetic system ♦ sympathetic vibration. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "sympathetic": sympathetic-looking. | |
Ending with "sympathetic": gay-sympathetic, half-sympathetic. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "sympathetic"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | zemërdhembsur (compassionate, merciful), i këndshëm (agreeable, beauteous, beautiful, delectable, delicious, dreamy, dulcet, entertaining, funny, good, good humoured, good tempered, good-humored, goodly, graceful, gracious, grateful, handsome, jocose, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, lovely, nice, palatable, piquant, pleasant, pretty, Savory, savoury, smooth, soft, sweet), i dhimbsur (tender), dashamirës (benevolent, benign, benignant, caring, chummy, well disposed, well meaning, well wisher, well-minded). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | ملائم لمزاج المرء, متعاطف (well disposed), ناظر بعين العطف, لذيذ (dainty, delectable, delicious, delightful, flavorful, flavourful, good, nice, palatable, pleasant, sapid, savory, sweet, tasteful, tasty, toothsome, unique, yummy), ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, kind, neighbor, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sexy, warm, well disposed), حساس (compassionate, critical, emotional, feeling, fine, hypersensitive, impressionable, maudlin, responsive, sensational, sensible, sensitive, sentient, sentiment, sentimental, susceptible, temperamental, tender, tender-hearted, ticklish), عطوف (appealing, benignant, good hearted, homely, humane, kind hearted, kindly, large-hearted, loving, matey, motherly, open-hearted, whole-hearted), عذب (agonize, agreeable, bedevil, benign, charming, chasten, crucify, devil, dulcet, freshen, grilled, harrow, harry, hearty, leisurely, liquid, murder, palmy, persecute, pillory, plague, quiet, rack, rack one's brains, scourge, silken, silky, sleek, smite, smooth, smooth spoken, soft, suave, sweet, tantalize, tease, tender, torment, torture, wrench, wring), عاطف (conjunctive, understanding), خفيف الروح (light-spirited), رحيم (beneficent, clement, compassionate, merciful, pitying), شفوق (compassionate, kind, kind hearted, pitying, soft-hearted, tender-hearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съчувствен (commiserative, compassionate, feeling, responsive, soft, understanding), сроден (affined, agnate, allied to, associated, cognate, congenial, connected, filial, kin, kindred, parotid, related, relational, sib, sister), симпатична система, симпатичен нерв, симпатичен (amiable, cute, nice, nice-looking, prepossessing, regular), симпатизиращ, отговарящ на вкусовете, отзивчив (approachable, co operative, forward, helpful, outgoing, respondent, responsive, soft-hearted, understanding, warmhearted), благоразположен (inclinable, well disposed, well-affected, willing), благоприятен (advantageous, conducive, favorable, favourable, large, merciful, opportune, propitious, prosperous, toward), близък (adjacent, akin, allied to, chummy, close, familiar, impendent, kindred, near, neighboring, neighbouring, next, nigh, pally, pressing, prospective, sister, solid, thick, toward), приятен (acceptable, agreeable, cheerful, clever, companionable, cozy, darling, easy, engaging, enjoyable, good, gracious, grateful, groovy, jocund, jolly, likable, likeable, likely, luscious, merry, musical, nice, nice-looking, not unwelcome, palatable, pleasant, pleasing, pretty, refreshing, rose colored, rose coloured, sapid, satisfying, savoury, soft, sweet, toothsome, welcome), подходящ (adaptable, adequate, agreeable, answerable, apposite, appropriate, apt, becoming, congenial, congruent, congruous, convenient, correct, correspondent, fit, fitting, germane, god given, likely, opportune, pointful, proper, propitious, sensible, suitable, suited, worthy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 有同情心 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | souladný, souhlasný (approving, concordant, consistent, homologous), soucitný (compassionate, feeling, passionate, pitiful, tenderhearted, warmhearted), chápavý (apprehensive, knowing, quick, quick in the uptake). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sympatisk. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | zielsverwant, sympathisch, sympathiek, innemend (charming, lovely). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | simpatia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | موافق (Amicable, Attune, Comkpliant, Compatible, Concurrent, Congruent, Pro, Respondent), همدرد, غمخوار, شفیق , دلسوز (Piteous). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | sympaattinen (attractive). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sympathique. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | sympathisch (likable, nice, pleasant, simpatico), sympathetisch, mitfühlend (caring, compassionate, sympathetical, tender-hearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπαθητικόσ (engaging, likable, nice), συμπαθητικός (likeable), συμπονετικόσ (charitable, pitiful, soft-hearted), σχετικός με το συμπαθητικό σύστημα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | משתתף בצער, או"" (adherent, fan, follower, supporter, sympathizer), א"ו" (likable, lovely), סימפתי. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | rokonszenvezõ, együtt érzõ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Icelandic | viðkunnanlegur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | simpatik, pilu (affected, moved, touched). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | simpatico (agreeable, amiable, congenial, decent, delightful, likeable, nice, pleasant, simpatico). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 情の もった (warmhearted), シンボル"作 (Conference of Ministers of the Group of Five, diesel, dungarees, G5, gaps between bones or muscles, gene, gene bank, gene engineering, General Infantery, genetic engineering, genius, GI, G-mark, G-men, GNP, Good design mark, government men, gross national product, jeans, jeans jacket, jeans pants, jeep, spaces, symbol manipulation, symmetric, symmetry, symposium), シンクロ納入 (Cincinatti, Cinderella, Cinderella boy, Cinderella complex, cymbals, one-base hit, one-handed catch, scintigram, scintillation camera, single, single bed, single cut, single match, single mother, single player, single-breasted suit, singles, sympathizer, sympathy, synchronous supply, syncopation, syndicate, syndicate loan, syndrome, syntax, synthesizer, thinner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シンパセティック , シンポ (symposium), じょうの"もった (warmhearted). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 동 (Sympathetical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | erreeishagh (compassionate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | sympatisk (likeable), grei. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ympatheticsay sympatyczny. (various references) complacente (acquiescent, complacent, compliant, indulgent, yielding). (various references) simpatic (attractive, attractively, congenial, inclination, ingratiating, kindly, likable, lovely, nice, nicely, pleasant, pleasing, prepossessing, pretty, shine), compãtimitor (compassionate, compassionately, feeling, humane, merciful, pitiful, pitifully, sympathetically, tender-hearted), care evocã amintiri, care aratã simpatie, care aratã înţelegere, înţelegãtor (accommodating, gentle, gently, rational). (various references) симпатический. (various references) saosećajan (commiserative, kind hearted). (various references) simpático (charming, congenial, darling, decent, friendly, genial, likeable, lovely, nice, pleasant). (various references) sympatisk (congenial, endearing, genial, likable, likeable, lovable, loveable), tilltalande (appealing, attractive, fetching, likable, likeable, palatable, pleasing, tasty). (various references) เห็นอกเห็นใจ (sympathize with, tenderhearted), มีใจเหมือนกัน (sympathize). (various references) sevimli (amiable, appealing, bonny, charming, cuddlesome, cuddly, cunning, cute, delectable, fair, likable, likeable, lovable, lovely, nice, pleasant, prettily, pretty, sapid, winning, winsome), ses titreşimi ile çıkan, sempatizan (camp follower, sympathizer, well wisher), sempatik sistem, sempatik sinir (accelerator, sympathetic nerve), sempatik (caring, congenial, engaging, likable, likeable, lovable, outgoing), taraftar (adherent, advocate, fan, favorable, favourable, follower, partisan, pro, side, supporter, sympathizer), ortak (agreed, associate, collaborator, collective, common, conjunct, consociate, cooperator, copartner, dormant partner, fellow, identic, joint, mate, mutual, pard, partner, party, privy, shareholder, sidekick), halden anlayan (large-hearted, sensible, understanding), duygudaş, diğerinden etkilenen, cana yakın (amiable, approachable, congenial, conversable, forthcoming, friendly, genial, gracious, hail-fellow-well-met, lovable, personable, warmhearted, warm-hearted), aynı hisseden, aynı duyguları paylaşan. (various references) duяgudaю, dцzьmsiz (compassionate). (various references) співчутливий (feeling, friendly, remorseful, warm-hearted), симпатичний, конгеніальний (congenial, connate), доброзичливий (amiable, benevolent, benignant, boon, charitable, good natured, pious, well disposed, well-affected, well-willed). (various references) thông cảm; đ"ng tình đầy tình cảm, hệ giao cảm người dễ xúc cảm, biểu lộ tình cảm. (various references) cydymdeimladol. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | affabilem, lenis, sympaticus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "sympathetic": sympathetically, sympathetics. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "sympathetic": parasympathetic, unsympathetic. (additional references) | |
Words containing "sympathetic": parasympathetics, unsympathetically. (additional references) | |
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"Sympathetic" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: simpathetic, smpathetic, symathetic, sympathatic, sympathettic, sympethetic, symphatetic, sympthetic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "sympathetic" (pronounced si'mputhe"tik) |
| 10 | s i' m p u th e" t i k | parasympathetic, unsympathetic. |
| 8 | -m p u th e" t i k | empathetic. |
| 7 | -p u th e" t i k | apathetic, pathetic. |
| 5 | -th e" t i k | aesthetic, anesthetic, kinesthetic, prosthetic, synthetic. |
| 4 | -e" t i k | acetic, alphabetic, apologetic, arithmetic, ascetic, athletic, cosmetic, diabetic, diamagnetic, dietetic, diuretic, electromagnetic, emetic, energetic, epigenetic, ferromagnetic, frenetic, genetic, geomagnetic, homiletic, hyperkinetic, kinetic, magnetic, paramagnetic, parthenogenetic, peripatetic, phonetic, poetic, prophetic, unapologetic. |
| 3 | -t i k | acoustic, acrobatic, aerobatic, agnostic, altruistic, amniotic, anachronistic, analytic, antagonistic, Antarctic, antibiotic, antic, anticlimactic, antiseptic, aortic, apocalyptic, apoplectic, aquatic, arctic, aristocratic, aromatic, arthritic, artistic, asthmatic, astronautic, asymptomatic, atavistic, atheistic, attic, authentic, autistic, autocratic, automatic, axiomatic, ballistic, bombastic, bureaucratic, capitalistic, catalytic, cathartic, caustic, chaotic, characteristic, charismatic, chauvinistic, chiropractic, cinematic, climactic, climatic, coloristic, critic, cryptic, cultic, cystic, democratic, dendritic, despotic, deterministic, diagnostic, diagrammatic, dialectic, didactic, diplomatic, dogmatic, domestic, dramatic, drastic, drumstick, dualistic, dynastic, ecclesiastic, eclectic, ecliptic, ecstatic, elastic, electrolytic, electrostatic, emblematic, emphatic, enigmatic, enthusiastic, enzymatic, epileptic, erotic, erratic, euphemistic, evangelistic, exotic, expressionistic, extragalactic, fanatic, fantastic, fatalistic, feudalistic, fiberoptic, frantic, futuristic, galactic, gigantic, granitic, gymnastic, halophytic, hectic, hedonistic, hemolytic, hepatic, heretic, hermaphroditic, holistic, homeostatic, humanistic, hypnotic, iconoclastic, idealistic, idiomatic, idiosyncratic, idiotic, imperialistic, impressionistic, individualistic, inelastic, interscholastic, jingoistic, journalistic, lactic, legalistic, linguistic, logistic, lymphatic, majestic, masochistic, materialistic, mathematic, mechanistic, melodramatic, militaristic, monastic, monochromatic, monopolistic, moralistic, mystic, narcissistic, narcotic, nationalistic, naturalistic, neritic, neurotic, novelistic, numismatic, oligopolistic, onomastic, operatic, opportunistic, optic, optimistic, orthodontic, pancreatic, pantheistic, paralytic, parasitic, paternalistic, patriotic, patristic, pectic, pedantic, peptic, pessimistic, phosphatic, plastic, pluralistic, pneumatic, polytheistic, porphyritic, posttraumatic, pragmatic, primitivistic, prismatic, problematic, programmatic, propagandistic, prophylactic, prostatic, psychoanalytic, psychosomatic, psychotherapeutic, psychotic, puristic, quixotic, realistic, relativistic, rheumatic, ritualistic, robotic, romantic, rustic, sadistic, sarcastic, schematic, scholastic, semantic, semiautomatic, semiotic, sensationalistic, septic, simplistic, skeptic, socialistic, static, statistic, stylistic, surrealistic, sycophantic, symbiotic, symptomatic, synergistic, systematic, tactic, technocratic, terroristic, thematic, theocratic, therapeutic, thermoplastic, thrombolytic, transatlantic, traumatic, triptych, unauthentic, uncharacteristic, undemocratic, undiplomatic, unenthusiastic, unpatriotic, unrealistic, voyeuristic. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-p-s-t-t-y" | |
-1 letter: metaphysic. | |
-2 letters: patchiest, thematics. | |
-3 letters: amethyst, campiest, campsite, chastity, empathic, emphatic, hematics, hepatics, mastiche, mateship, mispatch, misteach, mythiest, pastiche, pathetic, pistache, scyphate, shipmate, tachisme, tachiste, thematic, thymiest, typecast. | |
-4 letters: achiest, aitches, aphetic, aseptic, atheism, atheist, catties, cattish, chamise, chemist, chymist, ecthyma, empathy, etatism, hematic, hepatic, hepcats, impacts, impaste, impeach, matches, mistype, pastime, patches, patties. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-h-i-m-p-s-t-t-y" | |
+1 letter: sympathetics. | |
+2 letters: unsympathetic. | |
+3 letters: spermatophytic. | |
+4 letters: parasympathetic, sympathectomies, sympathetically, sympathomimetic. | |
+5 letters: antimetaphysical, parasympathetics, sympathectomized, sympathomimetics, thermoplasticity. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Usage Frequency | 13. Expressions 14. Expressions: Internet 15. Translations: Modern 16. Translations: Ancient | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Bibliography |
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