English Dictionary

sympathize

動詞

カナダ英語 アメリカ英語 自動詞 他動詞 廃用

(intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.

日本語の意味

（他者の感情に影響を受けて）同情する、共感する / （相手の苦しみや状態に対して）お気の毒に思う

I sympathize with her situation even though I haven't experienced it myself.

私は自分で経験していなくても、彼女の状況に同情します。

意味（1）

(intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.

[…] the Authors having chosen for their Heroes Persons who were so nearly related to the People for whom they wrote. Achilles was a Greek, and Aeneas the remote Founder of Rome. By this Means their Countrymen (whom they principally proposed to themselves for their Readers) were particularly attentive to all the Parts of their Story, and sympathized with their Heroes in all their Adventures.

意味（2）

(intransitive) To support, favour, have sympathy (with a political cause or movement, a side in a conflict / in an action).

‘ […] who is to hunt up my witnesses? All of them are sailors, drafted off to other ships, except those whose evidence would go for very little, as they took part, or sympathised in the affair. […] ’

意味（3）

(transitive) To say in an expression of sympathy.

“Poor children,” sympathized Pandit Lallaram.

意味（4）

(intransitive) To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

[…] the mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be […] too distracted to fix itself in meditation.

意味（5）

(transitive, obsolete) To share (a feeling or experience).

And all that are assembled in this place, That by this sympathized one day’s error Have suffer’d wrong, go keep us company, And we shall make full satisfaction.

意味（6）

(intransitive) To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.

Henry V. The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes, And by his hollow whistling in the leaves Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. Henry IV. Then with the losers let it sympathize, For nothing can seem foul to those that win.

sympathizes （ present singular third-person ）

sympathizing （ participle present ）

sympathized （ participle past ）

sympathized （ past ）