pities

Noun

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
• an unfortunate development
• the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
• plural of pity

Verb

Verb Forms: pities

• Feels sorrow or compassion for another's misfortune.
• share the suffering of
• third-person singular simple present indicative of pity

Examples

• No one PITIES a Scrabble player who constantly challenges valid words.

Synonyms

commiseration, compassion, compassionate, condole with, feel for, pathos, pity, ruth, shame, sympathize with