сочу́вствовать — meaning in English
sochuvstvovat
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English meaning
- commiserate adj Feeling or showing sympathy and sadness for someone else's troubles.
- compassionate adj Showing genuine concern and kindness toward someone who is suffering.
- condole verb To share in someone's grief and express sympathy with them, usually followed by 'with'.
- empathize verb To understand and share the feelings of another person.
- feel verb To become aware of something through the sense of touch.
- sympathize verb To feel or express understanding and care for someone else's suffering or situation.
Senses
сочу́вствовать is used for these senses in English:
- commiserate (transitive) To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
- compassionate (transitive, archaic) To feel compassion (for someone or with regard to something); to regard (someone or something) with compassion.
- condole Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
- empathize (intransitive) to feel empathy for another person
- feel (intransitive) To sympathise; to have the sensibilities moved or affected.
- feel for (idiomatic) To experience sympathy for, to sympathise with.
- sympathize (intransitive) To have, show or express sympathy; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected
compassionate — full definition
- adj Showing genuine concern and kindness toward someone who is suffering.
- adj Granted as an exception because of a family emergency, illness, or bereavement.
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