SYMPATHISER
Dictionary entry overview: What does sympathiser mean?
• SYMPATHISER (noun)
The noun SYMPATHISER has 2 senses:
1. commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
2. someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful
Familiarity information: SYMPATHISER used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SYMPATHISER (noun)
Meaning:
Commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
comforter; sympathiser; sympathizer
Hypernyms ("sympathiser" is a kind of...):
communicator (a person who communicates with others)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sympathiser"):
Job's comforter (someone whose comfort is actually discouraging)
Meaning:
Someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
well-wisher; sympathiser; sympathizer
Hypernyms ("sympathiser" is a kind of...):
admirer; booster; champion; friend; protagonist; supporter (a person who backs a politician or a team etc.)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sympathiser"):
bleeding heart (someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged)
fellow traveler; fellow traveller (a communist sympathizer (but not a member of the Communist Party))
