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What does sympathetic mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word sympathetic? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
  2. Of or relating to similarity.
  3. Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system.
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The autonomic nervous system is divided into two more systems: the sympathetic nervous system and the parasympathetic nervous system.
He is startling in the role of Jed, an achingly vulnerable figure who is tenderhearted, sympathetic, yet still very dangerous.
Processes used included rebuilding the pots with modern, sympathetic materials and providing specialist packing for each vessel.
Here we will activate your sympathetic nervous system using a famous model pain stimulus: dunking your hand in ice water.
A Ph.D. is a long, weird and mind-bending experience, and bureaucracies generally are sympathetic about this fact.
Drugs can modulate the activity of the sympathetic nervous system by affecting the synthesis, storage, release or reuptake of noradrenaline.

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