commiserative

1. 1.

   feeling or expressing sympathy

   “made commiserative clicking sounds with his tongue”

   Similarsympathetic

Questions about commiserative

What does commiserative mean?

commiserative means "feeling or expressing sympathy".

How many syllables are in commiserative?

commiserative has 5 syllables: com-mi-se-ra-tive. The stress falls on "se".

Is commiserative a common word?

commiserative is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.