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sympathizable

sympathizable adjective: able to be sympathized with; meriting sympathy.

Adjective

sympathizable (comparative more sympathizable, superlative most sympathizable)

  1. Able to be sympathized with; meriting sympathy.
    • Sympathizable more or less is every person and indeed every animal.2005, Denton Jaques Snider, Feeling Psychologically Treated, and Prolegomena to Psychology, page 276
    • But the stakes are higher for McCain as a presidential candidate; what might play as endearingly sympathizable ignorance in your home state becomes more problematic at the national scale, with another 49 state treasuries under your watch.2009, Michael E. Ross, American Bandwidth: Weblogs and Essays, page 184

Forms of sympathizable

comparativemore sympathizable
superlativemost sympathizable

Origin of sympathizable

From sympathize + -able.

Questions about sympathizable

What does sympathizable mean?
Sympathizable means able to be sympathized with; meriting sympathy.
What part of speech is sympathizable?
Sympathizable is an adjective.

Words near sympathizable in the dictionary

  1. sympathisingly
  2. sympathisings
  3. sympathism
  4. sympathist
  5. sympathists
  6. sympathizable
  7. sympathize
  8. sympathized
  9. sympathizer
  10. sympathizers
  11. sympathizes

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