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Definition: Commiseration |
CommiserationNoun1. A feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity". 2. An expression of sympathy with another's grief; "they sent their condolences". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "commiseration" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonyms: CommiserationSynonyms: condolence (n), pathos (n), pity (n), ruth (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pity | Noun: pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency; (lenity); charity, ruth, long-suffering. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Commiseration |
| English words defined with "commiseration": Miseration. (references) |
| "Commiseration" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Commiseration" is used about 19 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 19 | 80,337 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "commiseration"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përdëllim (clemency), ngushëllim (comfort, condolence, consolation, refuge, relief, resort, solace). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مواساة (condolence, consolation), رثاء (bemoaning, lamentation, panegyric, pathos, pity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съчувствие (compassion, condolence, feeling, fellow feeling, sympathy), изказване на съболезнования. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | soustrast (compassion, condolence), soucit (compassion, mercy, pity, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | surkuttelu (pity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | commisération. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Bemitleidung. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | συμπόνια (charity, compassion, fellow feeling, sympathy, sympathy for). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "שתתפות בצער (condolence, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szánalom (compassion, pity, ruth), részvét (compassion, condolence, rue, ruth, sympathy), együttérzés (solidarity, sympathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | compatimento (forbearance, indulgence), commiserazione (sympathy), piet (compassion, humaneness, mercy, pity, remorse, Ruth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ommiserationcay comiseração (fellow feeling, sympathy). (various references) compãtimire (compassion, fellow feeling, mercy, pity, remorse, sympathy), milã (alms, charity, compassion, goodwill, grief, it is pitiful, lenity, love, mercy, mile, pity, remorse, Ruth, sparing). (various references) сочувствие (condolence, empathy, fellow feeling, sympathy), соболезнование (condolence). (various references) saosećanje (bowels, compassion, fellow feeling). (various references) conmiseración. (various references) medömkan. (various references) merhamet (Agape, benignity, charitableness, charity, clemency, compassion, grace, loving kindness, mercy, misericordia, pity, Ruth), derdini paylaşma, acıma (aching, compassion, feeling, pathos, pity, Ruth, sympathy). (various references) співчуття (charity, condolence, empathy, leaning, sympathy). (various references) sự thương xót, sự thương hại (yearning), sự ái ngại. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | commiserationem. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "commiseration": commiserations. (additional references) | |
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"Commiseration" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: comiseration, comisseration, commieseration. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "commiseration" (pronounced 'Com*mis`er*a"tion'): Abacination, Abaction, Abalienation, Abarticulation, Abbreviation, Abdication, Abduction, Aberration, Abevacuation, Abirritation, Abjection, Abjudication, Abjuration, Ablactation, Ablaqueation, Ablation, Ablegation, Abligurition, Abnegation, Abnodation, Abolition, Abomination, Abortion, Abreaction, Abrenunciation, Abreption, Abrogation, Abruption, Absentation, Absolution, Absorbition, Absorption, Abstention, Abstraction, Absumption, Accentuation, Acceptation, Acceptilation, Acception, Acclimatation, Acclimation, Acclimatization, Accombination, Accommodation, Accreditation, Accrementition, Accretion, Accubation, Accusation, Acervation. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-m-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
-1 letter: craniotomies. | |
-2 letters: creationism, matrimonies, miscreation, romanticise, romanticism. | |
-3 letters: acrimonies, aeronomist, astronomic, cremations, criminates, manometric, manticores, metronomic, microtomes, microtones, monetarism, monitories, moronities, morticians, octonaries, osmometric. | |
-4 letters: acromions, aeronomic, ammonites, ammonitic, amoristic, anoretics, anterooms, anticrime, armistice, coenamors, coinmates, commoners, commonest, consortia, corantoes, coronates, cortisone, cramoisie, creations, cremation, cretinism, criminate, economist, encomiast, eroticism, immersion, intercoms, isometric, isooctane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-i-i-m-m-n-o-o-r-s-t" | |
+1 letter: commiserations, microanatomies. | |
+5 letters: commercializations, monochromaticities, overcommunications. | |
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