·adj Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
II. Sympathetic ·adj Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.
III. Sympathetic ·adj Produced by sympathy;
— applied particularly to symptoms or affections. ·see Sympathy.
IV. Sympathetic ·adj Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber.