commiserable

English

Etymology

Formed as commiser-, the present active indicative stem of the Latin commiseror (whence commiserate) + English -able. Compare miserable.

Adjective

commiserable (comparative more commiserable, superlative most commiserable)

1. (obsolete) pitiable
   • 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Plantations”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC, page 204:

     the Guiltineſſe of Bloud, of many Commiſerable Perſons.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “commiserable”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)