Word.ws English Dictionary

commiserations

commiserations is the plural of commiseration.

Meaning of commiseration

Noun

commiseration (countable and uncountable, plural commiserations)

  1. The act of commiserating; sorrow for the hardships or afflictions of another; pity; compassion.
    • But her assertion soon proved its truth. That very evening I met both the Duc de Joyeuse and Mademoiselle Guerchy;—a slight embarrassment on his part, a little air of triumphant impertinence on hers, and an affected but insolent commiseration from Mademoiselle de Guise, told the whole.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVII, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 197

Questions about commiserations

What is commiserations the plural of?
Commiserations is the plural of commiseration.

Words near commiserations in the dictionary

  1. commiserated
  2. commiserates
  3. commiserating
  4. commiseratingly
  5. commiseration
  6. commiserations
  7. commiserative
  8. commiseratively
  9. commiserator
  10. commiserators
  11. commiseratory

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: commiserations (page history and authors); commiseration (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “commiserations.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/commiserations. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.