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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: showing empathy or ready comprehension of others' states; "a sensitive and empathetic school counselor" [syn: empathic, empathetic]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1932 involving, eliciting, characterized by, or based on empathy • empathetically adverb

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

Someone who is empathetic has the ability to share another person's feelings or emotions as if they were their own. (FORMAL) ...Clinton's skills as an empathetic listener. ADJ

Moby Thesaurus

accordant, agreeable, agreeing, akin, allergic, amicable, anaphylactic, at one, attuned, compatible, concordant, congenial, corresponding, delicate, empathic, en rapport, frictionless, goosy, harmonious, hyperesthetic, hyperpathic, hypersensitive, in accord, in concert, in rapport, in tune, inharmony, irritable, itchy, like-minded, nervous, of one mind, overrefined, oversensible, oversensitive, overtender, passible, peaceful, prickly, refined, responsive, sensitive, skittish, supersensitive, sympathetic, tactful, tender, tetchy, thin-skinned, ticklish, together, touchy, understanding, united