transcription, транскрипция: [ sɪmpəθi ]
( sympathies)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you have sympathy for someone who is in a bad situation, you are sorry for them, and show this in the way you behave towards them.
I have had very little help from doctors and no sympathy whatsoever...
I wanted to express my sympathies on your resignation.
N-UNCOUNT : also N in pl
2.
If you have sympathy with someone’s ideas or opinions, you agree with them.
I have some sympathy with this point of view...
Lithuania still commands considerable international sympathy for its cause...
She has frequently expressed Republican sympathies.
N-UNCOUNT : also N in pl , oft N with/for n
3.
If you take some action in sympathy with someone else, you do it in order to show that you support them.
Milne resigned in sympathy because of the way Donald had been treated.
N-UNCOUNT : oft N with n