sympathiser

1. 1.

   a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune

   Synonymssympathizercomforter

   Broadercommunicator

   NarrowerJob's comforter
2. 2.

   someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful

   Synonymssympathizerwell-wisher

   Broadersupporter

   Narrowerbleeding heartfellow traveler

Other forms of sympathiser

plural

sympathisers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about sympathiser

What does sympathiser mean?

sympathiser means "a person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sympathiser?

sympathiser has 4 syllables: sym-pa-thi-ser. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for sympathiser?

Close synonyms include sympathizer, comforter, sympathizer, well-wisher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sympathiser a common word?

sympathiser 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.