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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)

Sense 1

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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)

Sense 2

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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))

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