pity

Plural: pities

Noun

• a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
  • "the blind are too often objects of pity"
• an unfortunate development
  • "it's a pity he couldn't do it"
• the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
• A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
• Something regrettable.
• Piety.

Verb

Verb Forms: pitied, pitying, pities

• To feel or express sorrow for another's suffering.
• share the suffering of
• To feel pity for (someone or something).
• To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.

Intj

• Ellipsis of what a pity.

Examples

• I can't feel any pity towards the gang, who got injured while attempting to break into a flat.
• I PITY the player who doesn’t use all their letters for a bingo bonus in Scrabble.
• It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
• take pity on someone
• What a pity about the band breaking up. I loved them!
• You have got to pity the guy - he lost his wife, mother and job in the same month.

Synonyms

commiseration, compassion, compassionate, condole with, feel for, pathos, ruth, shame, sympathize with, bad luck, bowels, commiserate, condole, cuhdear, empathy, feel someone's pain, feel sorry for, fellow feeling, hard lines, hard luck, loving-kindness, mercify, mercy, pity, remorse, rue, sympathy, take pity, tenderheartedness, too bad, tough luck, what a pity, what a shame, worse luck

Related Words

comfort, piety, pious, pity fuck, what a pity, 憐惜

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