Word Definition

Sympathetic

  1. Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy.
  2. Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber.
  3. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
  4. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.