Tra từ sympathy - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

see also EMOTION
- understanding of other people's feelings and problems: sympathy (for/towards sb) (noun U); to have sympathy for sb: sympathize (with sb/sth); adjective: sympathetic (adverb sympathetically)
I know I won't get any sympathy from you. ◎ I sympathize with you/your problems, but there's nothing I can do. ◎ a sympathetic attitude ◎ I spoke to Tom as sympathetically as I could.
- thinking about what other people feel, want, need, etc: thoughtfulness (noun U); adjective: thoughtful (adverb thoughtfully)
It was so thoughtful of you to remember me - I know how busy you are.
- sadness for other people's suffering: pity (noun U); to feel pity for sb: pity sb, feel* sorry for sb; to help sb who is in trouble or suffering, because you feel sorry for them: take* pity on sb
I can't feel pity for a person who treats animals like that. ◎ I don't want you to feel sorry for me.
- if you do sth because you feel sorry for sb, you do it out of pity (for them)
- caring about how other people feel and doing things to help them: kindness (noun U); adjective: kind (adverb kindly)
We were treated with wonderful kindness. ◎ Be kind to her!
※ being kind to people KIND/CRUEL
- something that causes you to feel sad or sympathetic is moving, touching; if you have this feeling, you are moved (by sth), touched (by sth)
a moving performance ◎ a touching moment ◎ to be deeply moved ◎ to be moved to tears
- asking for help and support: appealing (adverb appealingly)
an appealing look
※ sympathetic things to say
- when you feel sympathetic towards sb, you can say bad luck! or hard luck! or you poor thing!
- to show that you think sth is sad, you can say what a shame! or what a pity! or it's a shame/pity (that) ※¦
'My cat has been run over!' ' What a shame! How did it happen?' ◎ It's a shame that his daughter never comes to see him.
- sympathetic wishes for sb whose friend or relative has just died: (formal) condolences
Please accept my condolences on the death of your brother. ◎ to express your condolences
- if sb has experienced sth bad (for example if a friend is very ill or if a member of the family has died), you can say I'm so/very sorry
※ not sympathetic
- not sympathetic: unsympathetic (adverb unsympathetically), hard-hearted
- not thinking about what other people feel, want, need, etc: thoughtless (adverb thoughtlessly); noun (U): thoughtlessness
a thoughtless action/attitude