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To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.

Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. Shak. To congratulate one's self, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self h…

The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure. With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival. Dr. J. Scott.

Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice. Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church. Newman.

Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

to give pain to others; willing or pleased to hurt, torment, or afflict; destitute of sympathetic kindness and pity; savage; inhuman; hard-hearted; merciless. Behold a people cometh from the north country; . . . they are cruel and have no mercy. Jer. vi. 22,23.

Relating to cryptography; written in secret characters or in cipher, or with sympathetic ink.

Feeling no compunction; apathetic. [R.] Hallywell.

A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach.

Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them. Fuller. Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart. R. L. Stevenson.

athered Mercury. Shak. Nonsense feathered with soft and delicate phrases and pointed with pathetic accent. Dr. J. Scott.

In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically.

Like a companion; companionable; on equal terms; sympathetic. [Obs.] Udall.

Cold-hearted; unsympathetic; unyielding. [R.] Be not ever frozen, coy. T. Carew.

Furnished with ganglia; as, the gangliated cords of the sympathetic nervous system.

Contributing to, and sympathizing with, the enjoyment of life; sympathetically cheerful and cheering; jovial and inspiring joy or happiness; exciting pleasure and sympathy; enlivening; kindly; as, she was of a cheerful and genial disposition. So much I feel my genial spirits droop. Milton.

The quality of being genial; sympathetic cheerfulness; warmth of disposition and manners.