Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To feel or express sorrow or pity for; sympathize with.
- intransitive verb To feel or express sympathy.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To feel sorrow, regret, or compassion for, through sympathy; compassionate; pity: applied to persons or things: as, to
commiserate a person or his condition. - To regret; lament; deplore; be sorry for.
- To express pity for; condole with: as, he commiserated him on his misfortune.
- Synonyms To sympathize with, feel for, condole with.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To feel sorrow, pain, or regret for; to pity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective obsolete, rare
commiserating ,pitying ,lamentful - verb transitive To
feel orexpress compassion orsympathy for (someone or something). - verb transitive, intransitive To offer
condolences jointly with; express sympathy with. - verb intransitive To
sympathize ;condole .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb to feel or express sympathy or compassion
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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While we often "commiserate" our victimhood with other people, it's a better idea to share how we authentically feel (in a vulnerable way) and to engage in an inquiry with people we trust about why this situation may be happening for us.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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Indeed, in the midst of the ongoing crisis in his state, Walker actually called Governor Kaisch of Ohio, who's contemplating similar proposals, to "commiserate" about what he's going through.
The stakes in Wisconsin Greg Sargent 2011
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While we often "commiserate" our victimhood with other people, it's a better idea to share how we authentically feel (in a vulnerable way) and to engage in an inquiry with people we trust about why this situation may be happening for us.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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While we often "commiserate" our victimhood with other people, it's a better idea to share how we authentically feel (in a vulnerable way) and to engage in an inquiry with people we trust about why this situation may be happening for us.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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While we often "commiserate" our victimhood with other people, it's a better idea to share how we authentically feel in a vulnerable way and to engage in an inquiry with people we trust about why this situation may be happening for us.
Mike Robbins: Seeing Adversity As Happening for Us, Not to Us Mike Robbins 2010
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The commiserate—not 'commiserate'—the kick to our ...
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The commiserate—not 'commiserate'—the kick to our economy
Archive 2004-09-05 2004
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The commiserate—not 'commiserate'—the kick to our economy
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Or is Twitter the latest and, to put it ironically, greatest step in the stripping of meaning from news, information and social discourse? to "commiserate" with other pre-dawn DJs, and chat with listeners.
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Or is Twitter the latest and, to put it ironically, greatest step in the stripping of meaning from news, information and social discourse? to "commiserate" with other pre-dawn DJs, and chat with listeners.
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