noun
1. commiserates with someone who has had misfortune
• Syn: ↑sympathizer, ↑comforter
• Derivationally related forms: ↑comfort (for: ↑comforter), ↑sympathise, ↑sympathize (for: ↑sympathizer)
• Hypernyms: ↑communicator
• Hyponyms: ↑Job's comforter
2. someone who shares your feelings or opinions and hopes that you will be successful
• Syn: ↑sympathizer, ↑well-wisher
• Derivationally related forms: ↑sympathise, ↑sympathize (for: ↑sympathizer)
• Hyponyms: ↑bleeding heart, ↑fellow traveler, ↑fellow traveller
Useful english dictionary. 2012.