Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

commiserative

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: com-mis-er-a-tive
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

adj

Feeling or expressing commiseration, compassion, pity or sympathy

Etymology

Etymology tree English commiserate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English commiserative From commiserate + -ive.

Inflected Forms

more commiserative (comparative) most commiserative (superlative)

Derived Forms

commiseratively

Synonyms

pitiful commiserative pitying

Questions

What does commiserative mean?: Feeling or expressing commiseration, compassion, pity or sympathy
Where does commiserative come from?: Etymology tree English commiserate Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin -īvus Old French -ifbor. Middle English -yf English -ive English commiserative From commiserate + -ive.

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