Doting
Doting adjective - Extravagantly or foolishly loving and indulgent.
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Sympathetic and doting are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sympathetic" instead an adjective "Doting".
Nearby Word: doted
Sympathetic
Sympathetic adjective - Having or showing the capacity for sharing the feelings of another.
Doting and sympathetic are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Doting" instead an adjective "Sympathetic".
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- loving and doting
- loving and sympathetic
- understanding and doting
- understanding and sympathetic
- attentive and doting
- attentive and sympathetic
- demonstrative and doting
- demonstrative and sympathetic
- tender and doting
- tender and sympathetic
- kind and doting
- kind and sympathetic
- warm and doting
- warm and sympathetic
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Later adaptations would make her more sympathetic (especially INNOCENT, which completely removed the evil aspect and made her a full on Doting Parent).
Source: Evil Matriarch - However, the other examples are not so sympathetic: bratty Abdallah is spoiled rotten by his doting father, General Alcazar is paired with a harridan of a wife in Tintin and the Picaros, and then there is the horrible petit-bourgeois, "Belgican" Wagg clan...
Source: Parental Abandonment / Comics
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