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# The Good Oil Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-good-oil-word-of-the-day-425/
- Published: 2025-10-07T17:15:57.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-07T17:15:56.000Z
- Author: David Theobald
- Tags: General, Word of the Day

The word for today is…

simpatico (adjective):

1: agreeable, likable  
2: having shared qualities, interests, etc. : like-minded, sympathetic

Source : [Merriam -Webster](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/simpatico?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : Simpatico, which comes ultimately from the Latin noun sympathia, meaning “sympathy,” was borrowed into English from both the Italian simpatico and Spanish simpatico. In those languages, the word has been chiefly used to describe people who are well-liked or easy to get along with. Early uses of the word in English reflected those of their forebears, as in Henry James’s 1881 novel The Portrait of a Lady, in which one character says of another’s dying cousin, “Ah, he was so simpatico. I’m awfully sorry for you.” In recent years, however, the word has gained an additional sense describing things or people who get along well or work well together.

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