- Commiserative
- Commiserative Com*mis"er*a*tive, a. Feeling or expressing commiseration. --Todd. [1913 Webster]
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Commiserative
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commiserative — adjective feeling or expressing sympathy made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue Kenneth Roberts • Similar to: ↑sympathetic • Derivationally related forms: ↑commiserate … Useful english dictionary
commiserative — adjective see commiserate … New Collegiate Dictionary
commiserative — See commiserate. * * * … Universalium
commiserative — adjective Feeling or expressing commiseration, compassion, pity or sympathy … Wiktionary
commiserative — (Roget s Thesaurus II) adjective Feeling or expressing pity: compassionate, condolatory, pitying, sympathetic. Archaic: piteous, pitiful. See FEELINGS, PITY … English dictionary for students
commiserative — adj. sympathetic, compassionate, empathetic … English contemporary dictionary
commiserative — com·mis·er·a·tive … English syllables
sympathetic — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. compassionate, pitying, loving, considerate, sympathizing, tender; see also sensitive 3 , thoughtful 2 . See Synonym Study at tender . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. 1. compassionate concerned, commiserative, caring,… … English dictionary for students
commiserate — verb ( ated; ating) Etymology: Latin commiseratus, past participle of commiserari, from com + miserari to pity, from miser wretched Date: 1594 intransitive verb to feel or express sympathy ; condole … New Collegiate Dictionary
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