Meaning & use

sympatico

adjective·Advanced

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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