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sympathetick

sympathetick is the obsolete form of sympathetic.

Meaning of sympathetic

Adjective

sympathetic (comparative more sympathetic, superlative most sympathetic)

  1. Of, related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
    • John looked very upset. I gave him a sympathetic look.
    Antonyms:
    unsympathetic
    1. Showing approval of or favor towards an idea or action.
  2. Attracting the liking of others. (of a person)
    1. Designed in a sensitive or appropriate way.
  3. (relational) Relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises through an affinity, interdependence, or mutual association.
    • Sympathetic magic is based on imitation or correspondence.
    1. (relational) A supernatural connection or power resulting from two items having the same form or some other correspondence. (of magic)
      • One of his great enthusiasms was for a "sympathetic" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus.1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 225

See all 9 meanings of sympathetic

Forms of sympathetick

comparativemore sympathetick
superlativemost sympathetick

Questions about sympathetick

What is sympathetick the obsolete form of?
Sympathetick is the obsolete form of sympathetic.

Words near sympathetick in the dictionary

  1. sympathetic vibration
  2. sympathetic vibrations
  3. sympathetical
  4. sympathetically
  5. sympatheticism
  6. sympathetick
  7. sympatheticness
  8. sympatheticolytic
  9. sympatheticolytics
  10. sympathetics
  11. sympathetolytic

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