A person who commiserates with someone who has had misfortune.

synonyms: comforter, sympathiser.

Roget 890: friend, friend of one's bosom; alter ego; best friend, bosom friend, soulmate, fast friend; amicus [Lat.]; usque ad aras [Lat.]; fidus Achates [Lat.]; persona grata.    acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding acquaintance; wellwisher.    favorer, fautor^†, patron, Mecaenas; tutelary saint, good genius, advocate, partisan, sympathizer; ally; friend in need etc. (auxiliary) 711.    comrade, mate, companion, familiar, confrere, comrade, camarade^†, confidante, intimate; old crony, crony; chum; pal; buddy, bosom buddy; playfellow, playmate, childhood friend; bedfellow, bedmate; chamber fellow.    associate, colleague, compeer.    schoolmate, schoolfellow^†; classfellow^†, classman^†, classmate; roommate; fellow-man, stable companion.    best man, maid of honor, matron of honor.    compatriot; fellow countryman, countryman.    shopmate, fellow-worker, shipmate, messmate^†; fellow companion, boon companion, pot companion; copartner, partner, senior partner, junior partner.    Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and Arcades ambo Pylades and Orestes Castor and Pollux^†, Nisus and Euryalus [Lat.], Damon and Pythias, par nobile fratrum [Lat.].    host, Amphitryon^†, Boniface; guest, visitor, prot_eg_e.    ... show more

Roget 906: benevolence, Christian charity; God's love, God's grace; good will; philanthropy etc. 910; unselfishness etc. 942.    good nature, good feeling, good wishes; kindness, kindliness etc. adj.; loving-kindness, benignity, brotherly love, charity, humanity, fellow-feeling, sympathy; goodness of heart, warmth of heart; bonhomie; kind-heartedness; amiability, milk of human kindness, tenderness; love etc. 897; friendship etc. 888.    toleration, consideration, generosity; mercy etc. (pity) 914.    charitableness etc. adj.; bounty, almsgiving; good works, beneficence, the luxury of doing good" [Goldsmith]. acts of kindness, a good turn; good offices, kind offices good treatment, kind treatment.    good Samaritan, sympathizer, bon enfant [Fr.]; altruist.    ... show more

Roget 914: pity, compassion, commiseration; bowels, of compassion; sympathy, fellow-feeling, tenderness, yearning, forbearance, humanity, mercy, clemency; leniency etc. (lenity) 740; charity, ruth, long-suffering.    melting mood; argumentum ad misericordiam [Lat.], quarter, grace, locus paenitentiae [Lat.].    sympathizer; advocate, friend, partisan, patron, wellwisher.    ... show more

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

synonyms: sympathiser, well-wisher.

Dutch: sympathisant
Polish: sympatyk