VERBS
- appear, be, feel, look, seem, sound
- become
- find sb
- I found the doctors quite sympathetic
ADV
- deeply, extremely, genuinely, immensely, truly, very
- a patient and deeply sympathetic man He sounded genuinely sympathetic
- largely
- fairly, pretty, quite
- suitably
- She made suitably sympathetic noises down the phone
PREP
- about
- My boss is being very sympathetic about my problems
- to
- They were extremely sympathetic to my plight
- towards
- I did not feel sympathetic towards them
ADV
- deeply, extremely, highly, very
- entirely
- less than
- broadly, generally, quite
- politically
PREP
- to
- The government is broadly sympathetic to our ideas
