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Definition: Commiserate |
CommiserateVerb1. To feel or express sympathy or compassion. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "commiserate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Note: Commiserate \Com*mis"er*ate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Commiserated; present participle verb or noun Commiserating.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonym: CommiserateSynonym: sympathize (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pity | Verb: pity; have pity, show pity, take pity; Noun: commiserate, compassionate; condole; sympathize; feel for, be sorry for, yearn for; weep, melt, thaw, enter into the feelings of. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Commiserate |
| English words defined with "commiserate": Commiserated, Commiserating. (references) |
| "Commiserate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 87.50% of the time. "Commiserate" is used about 24 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 87.5% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 8.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 4.17% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 24 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "commiserate": commiserate with ♦ commiserate with smb.. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
commiserate | 5 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "commiserate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përdëllej, mëshiroj (compassionate, pity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | آسي (comfort), رثى (mourn). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съчувствувам (compassionate, condole, sympathize), изказвам съболезнования (condole). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | politovat (pity), kondolovat. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | تسلیت گفتن بر, ترحم کردن بر, اظهارتاسف کردن (Condole), دلسوزی کردن (Pity, Rue). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | témoigner de la sympathie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | bemitleiden (feel sorry for, have compassion on, pity, to pity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπάσχω (suffer along with smb.), συμπαθώ (like, sympathize, take to), συμπονώ (sympathise with, sympathize with), λυπάμαι (be sorry to, feel for, I am sorry, regret). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | ל"ביע צער. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | sajnálkozik (to commiserate, to regret), megszán (pity, to commiserate, to pity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | compiangere (be sorry for, bemoan, feel sorry for oneself, pity, sympathise with, sympathize with), compatire (be sorry for, forgive, pity, sympathise, sympathize), commiserare (feel sorry for oneself, pity, sympathise, sympathize), dolersi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "れむ (to commiserate, to have mercy on, to pity, to sympathize with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | あわれむ (to commiserate, to have mercy on, to pity, to sympathize with). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | co-choe (commiseration; sympathize, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommiseratecay ter pena de (bleed, feel sorry for), ter compaixão (compassionate), simpatizar (sympathize), lamentar (bemoan, bewail, beweep, deplore, grouse, keen, lament, moan, mourn, pity, plain, regret, rue, weep). (various references) compãtimi (pity, sympathize). (various references) сочувствовать (condole, empathize, empathize with, sympathize, sympathize with), соболезновать (condole). (various references) saosećati (feel for smb., sympathize). (various references) compadecer (comply, sympathize). (various references) ömka (pity). (various references) merhamet etmek (pity, pity on, relent, show mercy), kederini paylaşmak, başsağlığı dilemek (condole, sympathize), acımak (ache, be sorry for, bite, deplore, feel for smb., feel pity for, feel sorry for, have compassion, have mercy, hurt, pity, pity smb., relent, rue, smart, sting, sympathize). (various references) співчувати (compassion, compassionate, condole, empathize, feel for, feel sorry, have pity, pity, sympathize, warm, yearn). (various references) gresynu (pity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "commiserate": commiserated, commiserates. (additional references) | |
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"Commiserate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comisarate, comiserate, comisserate, commessurate, commesurate, commisarate, commiserater, commisserate, commisurate. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "commiserate" (pronounced kumi"serā't) |
| 5 | -i" s er ā' t | eviscerate. |
| 4 | -s er ā' t | incarcerate, lacerate. |
| 3 | -er ā' t | accelerate, adulterate, agglomerate, ameliorate, collaborate, commemorate, cooperate, corroborate, decelerate, decorate, deteriorate, enumerate, evaporate, exaggerate, exasperate, exhilarate, exonerate, federate, generate, inaugurate, incinerate, incorporate, invigorate, liberate, obliterate, operate, perforate, proliferate, recuperate, redecorate, refrigerate, regenerate, reincorporate, reinvigorate, reiterate, reverberate, saturate, separate, tolerate, venerate. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-m-m-o-r-s-t" | |
-2 letters: ammocetes, creamiest, esoterica, metameric, miscreate, osmeteria, recommits. | |
-3 letters: acrotism, ammeters, ammocete, amortise, atomiser, casimere, ceramist, coteries, cremates, emeritas, emirates, esoteric, marmites, marmoset, matrices, memories, memorise, meristem, mesmeric, metamers, meteoric, mistrace, mortices, racemism, racemose, rammiest, recommit, scimetar, semicoma, sometime, steamier, stemmier, tiresome. | |
-4 letters: acerose, acetose, aeriest, amerces, ammeter, amorist, amosite, atomics, atomies, atomise, atomism. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-m-m-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: commentaries, commiserated, commiserates, microgametes. | |
+2 letters: commiserative. | |
+3 letters: commemoratives, incommensurate. | |
+4 letters: commercialities, complementaries, recommendations, semidocumentary. | |
+5 letters: compartmentalise, electromagnetism, mechanochemistry, microgametocytes, micromanagements, overcommunicates. | |
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