0 an expression of sympathy for someone, especially someone who has lost a competition:
There is but a single step from commiseration to stigmatisation and from victimisation to contempt and exclusion from public debate.
I begin by offering you my commiserations because your hopes of promotion were not fulfilled.
Commiserations as well as congratulations would seem to be in order.
If he thinks that he has not made progress, shall we join in mutual commiserations?
Perhaps congratulations are in order from us, and commiserations from his colleagues.
If all those members, who subsequently offered the hockey section their commiserations, had voted in its favour, the section would not have been thrown out.
I have very great commiseration and compassion for those men.
I have only one word of commiseration for him.
