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commiserable

commiserable adjective: pitiable.

Adjective

commiserable (comparative more commiserable, superlative most commiserable)

  1. (obsolete) pitiable
    • the Guiltineſſe of Bloud, of many Commiſerable Perſons.1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Plantations”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 204

commiserable meaning in Tamil

commiserable in Tamil

இரக்க உணர்ச்சிக்குரிய, இரக்கப்படத்தக்க

Forms of commiserable

comparativemore commiserable
superlativemost commiserable

Origin of commiserable

Formed as commiser-, the present active indicative stem of the Latin commiseror (whence commiserate) + English -able. Compare miserable.

Questions about commiserable

What does commiserable mean?
Commiserable means pitiable.
What is commiserable in Tamil?
Commiserable in Tamil is இரக்க உணர்ச்சிக்குரிய, இரக்கப்படத்தக்க. See Commiserable meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is commiserable?
Commiserable is an adjective.

Words near commiserable in the dictionary

  1. comminutions
  2. comminutor
  3. comminutors
  4. commis
  5. commiscible
  6. commiserable
  7. commiserate
  8. commiserated
  9. commiserates
  10. commiserating
  11. commiseratingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commiserable (page history and authors); commiserable (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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