commiseratory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
6
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "Adolf Hitler in self-commiseratory mood once spoke darkly of dying and said he had chosen his successor. He thought a minor growth in his throat (later cleanly removed) was an incurable cancer."
- "Comments were not always so flattering as to the enjoyment of "listening to music we have heard practiced for months before"; but whether mildly critical and self-commiseratory or flippantly satirical, the "circus bench season" never failed to bring forth its student editorial comment."
- "Nevertheless, I wrote a long commiseratory letter to Carlo, who was sent for a rest to a nursing home run by nuns at Bellagio on the Lake of Como."
Etymology
From commiserator + -ory.
Inflected Forms
more commiseratory (comparative)
most commiseratory (superlative)