Example sentences for: empathetic

How can you use “empathetic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • I just noticed that you used the word "empathetic."

  • It seems that only psychologists know that the word is "empathically," not "empathetically," as used in David Edelstein's review of Unmade Beds . While you will find "empathetic" in some dictionaries, that is only because so many people have (mis)used it, thinking if it is sympathy/sympathetic it must be empathy/empathetic.

  • Good reviews for writer-director John Sayles' ( Lone Star ) latest drama: "moving and empathetic ...

  • One virtue of having chosen these particular characters--a gruff, empathetic nurse instead of a polished, pro-choice lobbyist; a thoughtful, vaguely leftish Catholic as opposed to a fire-breathing evangelic--is that we can live with them for 500 pages or so.

  • None of these prevents Sutton from honoring Bettelheim as an unorthodox Freudian whose creative relationship to facts was inseparable from his intuitive genius and his great empathetic powers.


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