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commiserative

commiserative adjective: feeling or expressing commiseration, compassion, pity or sympathy.

Adjective

commiserative (comparative more commiserative, superlative most commiserative)

  1. Feeling or expressing commiseration, compassion, pity or sympathy
    Synonyms:
    pitiful, pitying

Synonyms of commiserative

Forms of commiserative

comparativemore commiserative
superlativemost commiserative

Origin of commiserative

From commiserate + -ive.

Words formed from commiserative

Questions about commiserative

What does commiserative mean?
Commiserative means feeling or expressing commiseration, compassion, pity or sympathy.
What part of speech is commiserative?
Commiserative is an adjective.

Words near commiserative in the dictionary

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

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