Heartfelt vs Commiserate - What's the difference?
heartfelt | commiserate |
Felt or believed deeply and sincerely.
(obsolete, rare) commiserating, pitying, lamentful
* 1593 : , Christ’s Teares over Jerusalem ,
To feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).
(ambitransitive) To offer condolences jointly with; express sympathy with.
To sympathize; condole.
As adjectives the difference between heartfelt and commiserate
is that heartfelt is felt or believed deeply and sincerely while commiserate is (obsolete|rare) commiserating, pitying, lamentful.As a verb commiserate is
to feel or express compassion or sympathy for (someone or something).heartfelt
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Alternative forms
* heart-feltAdjective
- She expressed her heartfelt sympathies at the death of his mother.
Synonyms
* genuine, sincere, trueDerived terms
* heartfeltly * heartfeltnesscommiserate
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Etymology 1
From , the perfect passive participle of commiseror.Adjective
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- In the time of Gregory Nazianzene, if we may credit ecclesiastical records, there sprung up the direfulest mortality in Rome that mankind hath been acquainted with; scarce able were the living to bury the dead, and not so much but their streets were digged up for graves, which this holy Father (with no little commiserate heart-bleeding) beholding, commanded all the clergy (for he was at that time their chief bishop) to assemble in prayer and supplications, and deal forcingly beseeching with God, to intermit his fury and forgive them.
References
* “†co?mmiserate, ppl. a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd Ed.; 1989
Etymology 2
Modelled upon , the perfect passive participial stem of the (etyl) commiseror.Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete) * (l) (obsolete spelling and modern misspelling) * (l) (obsolete spelling and modern misspelling)Verb
Derived terms
* (l), (l) * (l)References
* “commiserate, v.'']” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary [2nd Ed.; 1989