sympathize with

What does sympathize with mean?

sympathize with means "share the suffering of".

What is another word for sympathize with?

Close synonyms include feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with. 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 sympathize with a common word?

sympathize with 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sympathize with come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.