commiserate

/kəˌmɪzəˈreɪt/

Other forms: commiserating; commiserated; commiserates

When you commiserate with your buddies, you're sharing your lousy feelings. People who commiserate have the same negative feelings about something.

Take a look at how commiserate is built: it's from Latin "com-," which means "together with," and miserārī, "to pity." Put them together, and you get "to pity one another, commiserate." When you commiserate, you and your fellow commiserators talk about how badly you're all feeling. After the layoffs, we all went to the bar to commiserate.

Definitions of commiserate

1. verb

   feel or express sympathy or compassion
   synonyms: sympathise, sympathize

   types:

   condole

   express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death

   type of:

   compassionate, condole with, feel for, pity, sympathize with

   share the suffering of