different between commiserate vs misery
commiserate
English
Etymology 1
From commiser?tus, the perfect passive participle of commiseror.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?m??z?r?t, IPA(key): /k??m?z???t/
Adjective
commiserate (not comparable)
- (obsolete, rare) commiserating, pitying, lamentful
- 1593: Thomas Nashe, Christ’s Teares over Jerusalem, page 157 (1815 edited republication)
- In the time of Gregory Nazianzene, if we may credit ecclesiastical records, there sprung up the direfulest mortality in Rome that mankind hath been acquainted with; scarce able were the living to bury the dead, and not so much but their streets were digged up for graves, which this holy Father (with no little commiserate heart-bleeding) beholding, commanded all the clergy (for he was at that time their chief bishop) to assemble in prayer and supplications, and deal forcingly beseeching with God, to intermit his fury and forgive them.
- 1593: Thomas Nashe, Christ’s Teares over Jerusalem, page 157 (1815 edited republication)
References
- “†co?mmiserate, ppl. a.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Etymology 2
Modelled upon commiser?t-, the perfect passive participial stem of the Latin commiseror.
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?m??z?r?t, IPA(key): /k??m?z??e?t/
Verb
commiserate (third-person singular simple present commiserates, present participle commiserating, simple past and past participle commiserated)
- (transitive) To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
- (intransitive, as the phrasal verb commiserate with) To sympathize; condole.
- (transitive, intransitive) To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Derived terms
- commiserating, commiseratingly
- commiseration
Translations
References
- “commiserate, v.” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989]
Related terms
- misery
Italian
Verb
commiserate
- second-person plural present indicative of commiserare
- second-person plural imperative of commiserare
- feminine plural of commiserato
Anagrams
- ammoscirete
- esercitammo
Latin
Participle
commiser?te
- vocative masculine singular of commiser?tus
commiserate From the web:
- what commiserate means
- commiserate what does it mean
- what does commiserate mean in a sentence
- what does commiserate definition
- what does commiserate mean dictionary
- what does commiserate synonym
- what does commiserate mean in literature
- what does commiserate mean in french
misery
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Old French miserie (modern: misère), from Latin miseria, from miser. Doublet of misère.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?m?z(?)??/
- (General American) enPR: m?z??-r?, m?z?r?, IPA(key): /?m?z(?)?i/
- Hyphenation: mis?ery
Noun
misery (countable and uncountable, plural miseries)
- Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
- (US and Britain, dialects) A bodily ache or pain.
- 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:
- [...] and I had a misery in my left breast and shoulder. I was hurt, but knew not how or how much.
- 1868, John Vestal Hadley, Seven Months a Prisoner, page 15:
- Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune.
- (Extreme) poverty.
- (archaic) greed; avarice.
Synonyms
- see Thesaurus:greed
Derived terms
- put out of one's misery
Related terms
- commiserate
- miser
- miserable
Translations
Anagrams
- Myries
misery From the web:
- what misery means
- what misery business about
- what misery loves company means
- what misery came to the family of naomi
- what misery in french
- what misery means in tagalog
- what's misery in english
- what's misery guts
Share
Tweet
+1
Share
Pin
Like
Send
Share
you may also like
- commiserate vs misery
- metabolize vs metabolic
- melodramatics vs melodramatic
- linear vs lineage
- lineal vs lineage
- libidinosity vs libidinous
- libidinist vs libidinous
- libidinism vs libidinous
- liberation vs liberate
- liberty vs liberate
- reliable vs liable
- semilethal vs lethal
- leisure vs leisurely
- lessor vs lease
- lamarckian vs lamarckism
- lackluster vs lack
- jubilee vs jubilation
- jubilate vs jubilation
- jubilancy vs jubilation
- jubilant vs jubilation