adj.
VERBS
▪ appear , be , feel , look , seem , sound
▪ become
▪ find sb
▪
I found the doctors very ~.
▪ make sb
▪
Her aggressive attitude makes me less ~ to her plight.
▪
The character's faults actually make him more ~.
ADVERB
▪ extremely , fairly , very , etc.
▪ deeply , genuinely , truly
▪
a patient and deeply ~ man
▪
He sounded genuinely ~.
▪ entirely , highly
▪
He was speaking to a highly ~ audience.
▪ not entirely
▪
He'd written a not entirely ~ article in the ‘Globe’.
▪ less than
▪
Her attitude to my situation was less than ~.
▪ broadly , largely
PREPOSITION
▪ about
▪
My boss is being very ~ about my problems.
▪ to
▪
They were extremely ~ to my plight.
▪
The government is broadly ~ to our ideas.
▪ towards/toward
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I did not feel ~ towards/toward them.
Sympathetic is used with these nouns: ↑ attitude , ↑ audience , ↑ character , ↑ ear , ↑ expression , ↑ eye , ↑ grin , ↑ hand , ↑ handling , ↑ hearing , ↑ listener , ↑ look , ↑ manner , ↑ observer , ↑ reception , ↑ response , ↑ teacher , ↑ tone , ↑ treatment , ↑ understanding