Collocation Dictionary
Common collocations with sympathy in American Collocation
sympathy
noun
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What are red words?
Around 90% of spoken and written English relies on just 7,500 common words.These words are highlighted in red and are ranked using a star system.
- One-star words are commonly used
- Two-star words are even more common
- Three-star words are the most frequently used
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/ˈsɪmpəθi/
great or sincere
considerable
deep
great
heartfelt
profound
sincere
One can only feel heartfelt sympathy for residents affected by the flood waters.
not much
little
If he’s guilty, then we should have very little sympathy for him.
of the public
public
There was little public sympathy for him in Spain.
human
human
She is incapable of human sympathy.
feel sympathy
feel
find
have
However, we ought to have some sympathy for the director.
show sympathy
express
show (someone)
She didn’t show any sympathy for the victims of the bomb.
give or send sympathy
extend
offer (someone)
send (someone)
I wish to extend my deepest sympathies to the bereaved families.
get sympathy
arouse
attract
elicit
evoke
gain
get
receive
win
News of the tragedy spread at once all over the world and evoked sympathy everywhere.
deserve sympathy
deserve
They should not have been put in that position and certainly deserved sympathy.
lose sympathy
lose
She was so gratuitously aggressive that she lost the sympathy of the audience.
aim
argument
cause
position
view
I suspect many of us would have sympathy with these views.