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# sympathy

«sympathy» in Mova's school dictionary: **feeling sorry for someone who is sad, hurt or in trouble…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sympathy — usually uncountable; sympathies)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone who is sad, hurt or in trouble, and showing that you care. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#m1)

2) Sympathy can mean agreeing with or supporting someone's ideas or side: I have some sympathy with his view. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#m2)

3) (formal) «Sympathies» are the kind words you send when someone has died: «with deepest sympathy». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life and stories it is a caring feeling: we feel sympathy for someone who is ill or has lost a pet. Phrases: feel sympathy for, have sympathy with, a sympathy card, out of sympathy, our sympathies.

### examples

- I felt great sympathy for Sam when his dog died. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x1)
- We sent Mrs Jones a sympathy card. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x2)
- The children showed sympathy for the new girl who was lonely. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x3)
- He got no sympathy from his sister when he complained. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x4)
- I have some sympathy with your idea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x5)
- Please accept our deepest sympathy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x6)
- But Jupiter had little sympathy for him. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/#x7)

### note

Usually uncountable: «a lot of sympathy». Sympathy is feeling sorry for someone; empathy is imagining how they feel from the inside. Not the same as «pity», which can sound like looking down on someone. Adjective: sympathetic (kind, caring) — in Ukrainian «симпатичний» means «nice-looking», a false friend.

### In the corpora

- ["At rest" means dead; it is written on graves and in sympathy cards.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/1-death-polite-and-joking/19/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sympathy» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sympathy/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.