empathetically

1. 1.

   in a sympathetic manner

   “she listened to him sympathetically”

   Synonymssympathetically

Questions about empathetically

What does empathetically mean?

empathetically means "in a sympathetic manner".

How many syllables are in empathetically?

empathetically has 6 syllables and divides as em-pa-the-ti-cal-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for empathetically?

Close synonyms include sympathetically. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is empathetically a common word?

empathetically is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.