1. feeling or showing sympathy: showing, having, or resulting from shared feelings, pity, or compassion
2. approving: showing favor, agreement, or approval was sympathetic to their request
3. provoking sympathy: provoking sympathy, interest, or compassion a sympathetic character in a novel
4. suited: agreeably suited to somebody's tastes or mood a sympathetic environment
5. acoustics produced by other sounds: describes vibrations such as musical tones that are produced in something as a result of similar vibrations at the same frequency from something else
6. anatomy of sympathetic nervous system: relating or belonging to the sympathetic nervous system or to one of its components
