Associations to the word «Sympathetically»

Wiktionary

SYMPATHETICALLY, adverb. Owing to or showing evidence of "sympathy", or affinity; happening through or demonstrating correspondences, whether occult or physiological.
SYMPATHETICALLY, adverb. In a manner which demonstrates a sharing in the feelings of others; compassionately.

Dictionary definition

SYMPATHETICALLY, adverb. With respect to the sympathetic nervous system; "the stimulus acted sympathetically".
SYMPATHETICALLY, adverb. In a sympathetic manner; "she listened to him sympathetically".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats