Synonyms for commiserable
- deplorable
- feeble
- heartbreaking
- miserable
- pitiful
- poignant
- sorry
- woeful
- distressing
- heartrending
- inadequate
- lamentable
- meager
- melting
- moving
- paltry
- petty
- piteous
- pitiable
- plaintive
- poor
- puny
- rueful
- tender
- touching
- useless
- worthless
- wretched
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WORD ORIGIN
c.1600, from Latin commiseratus, past participle of commiserari "to pity, bewail" (see commiseration). Related: Commiserated; commiserating. An Old English loan-translation of commiserate was efensargian.
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