feeling, showing, or expressing sympathy

she was sympathetic towards staff with family problems

he spoke in a sympathetic tone

(of a person) attracting the liking of others

Hubbell is a more sympathetic character

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

relating to, producing, or denoting an effect which arises in response to a similar action elsewhere