An adjective "sympathetic" is related to, feeling, showing, or characterized by sympathy, and can also show approval of or favor towards an idea or action.

(of a person) An adjective "sympathetic" is designed in a sensitive or appropriate way, attracting the liking of others.

An adjective that relates to effects produced through affinity, interdependence, or mutual association, as well as supernatural connections in magic and musical tones produced by sympathetic vibration.

(neuroanatomy, neurology, relational) Relating to or denoting the part of the autonomic nervous system consisting of nerves arising from ganglia near the middle part of the spinal cord, supplying the internal organs, blood vessels, and glands, and balancing the action of the parasympathetic nerves.