Meaning & use
Commiserations
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Expressions of sympathy or pity for someone else's misfortune or disappointment.
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Commiserations on losing the final — you played brilliantly all season.
She offered her commiserations to the team after their narrow defeat.
A note on using this word
Commiserations is especially common in British English as a stand-alone exclamation, said to console someone after a disappointment rather than a death, for which 'condolences' is used instead.
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