Meaning & use
sympatico
Sharing similar attitudes, interests, or temperament with someone, making the relationship easy and pleasant.
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The two writers were immediately sympatico, finishing each other's sentences by the second meeting.
We found our new neighbors wonderfully sympatico and started having dinner together weekly.
A note on using this word
Borrowed from Italian and Spanish, sympatico is informal in English and is often spelled simpatico instead.
Words with a similar meaning
compatiblesimpatico
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Words with an opposite meaning
incompatible
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