SYMPATHISER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sympathiser mean? 

• SYMPATHISER (noun)
  The noun SYMPATHISER has 2 senses:

1. a person who 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

Meaning:

A person who 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)

Derivation:

sympathise (to feel or express sympathy or compassion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

sympathiser; sympathizer; well-wisher

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))

Derivation:

sympathise (share the feelings of; understand the sentiments of)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Weston, who seemed to have walked there on purpose to be tired, and sit all the time with him, remained, when all the others were invited or persuaded out, his patient listener and sympathiser.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)