Analyze vs Sympathetic - What's the difference?
analyze | sympathetic |
To subject to analysis.
To resolve (anything complex) into its elements.
To separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately.
To examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to analyze a fossil substance, to analyze a sentence or a word, or to analyze an action to ascertain its morality.
Of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
Of or relating to similarity.
As a verb analyze
is to subject to analysis.As an adjective sympathetic is
of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy.analyze
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Alternative forms
* analyse (Commonwealth except Canada)Verb
(analyz)Usage notes
* According to the third edition of (w, Fowler's Modern English Usage), both analyze'' and the British spelling ''analyse'' are equally indefensible from an etymological perspective. The correct but now impossible form should have been ''analysize .Derived terms
* analyzable, analysable * analyzability, analysability * analyzer, analyser * psychoanalyze, psychoanalysesympathetic
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* sympathetick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- John looked very upset. I gave him a sympathetic look.
- Sympathetic magic is based on imitation or correspondence.