0 an expression of sympathy for someone, especially someone who has lost a competition: --
I often wonder whether being successful in the ballot is a matter for congratulation or commiseration.
I think we have too frequently lavished nearly the whole of our commiseration upon the offenders during the term of their imprisonment.
On the surface there did not appear to me to be any reason for commiseration.
Indeed, there are some who would think that that is a matter of congratulation rather than commiseration.
They have all my sympathy and my commiseration.
I suppose that it also includes commiseration cards.
Nobody who has seen the effects of lead poisoning could underrate them and nobody could feel anything but commiseration for those who are its victims.
I have only one word of commiseration for him.
