Word Meanings - COMMISERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. Locke. Syn. -- To pity; compassionate; lament; condole.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMMISERATE)

• Condole
• Sympathize
• console
• commiserate

Related words: (words related to COMMISERATE)

• CONDOLER
  One who condoles.
• SYMPATHIZE
  1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain. The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation. Buckminster. 2. To feel in consequence
• SYMPATHIZER
  One who sympathizes.
• CONDOLENCE
  Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief. Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele. A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.
• COMMISERATE
  To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. Locke. Syn. -- To pity; compassionate; lament; condole.
• CONSOLE
  To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe. And empty heads console with empty sound. Pope. I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has
• CONSOLER
  One who gives consolation.
• CONDOLE
  To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.
• CONDOLEMENT
  1. Condolence. "A pitiful condolement." Milton. 2. Sorrow; mourning; lamentation. Shak.