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Pity

Pity Meaning & Definition
Pity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Pity?

[n] the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
[n] an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"
[n] a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity"
[v] share the suffering of

Synonyms | Synonyms for Pity: commiseration | compassion | compassionate | condole with | feel for | pathos | ruth | shame | sympathize with

Related Terms | Find terms related to Pity: abomination | acceptance | ache | atrocity | be sorry for | bleed | bleed for | chanty | clemency | clementness | commiserate | commiseration | compassion | compassionate | condole with | condolence | crime | dejection | desecration | disgrace | distress | easiness | easygoingness | feel | feel for | feel sorrow for | feel sorry for | forbearance | forbearing | gentleness | humaneness | humanity | ignominy | infamy | lament for | laxness | lenience | leniency | lenientness | lenity | melancholy | mercifulness | mercy | mildness | misfortune | moderateness | patience | profanation | rue | ruth | sacrilege | sadness | scandal | shame | sin | softness | sorrow | sympathize | sympathize with | sympathy | tenderness | terrible thing | tolerance | violation | weep for

See Also | bad luck | care | commiserate | fellow feeling | grieve | mercifulness | mercy | misfortune | sorrow | sympathise | sympathize | sympathy

Pity In Webster's Dictionary

\Pit"y\, n.; pl. {Pities}. [OE. pite, OF. pit['e], piti['e], F. piti['e], L. pietas piety, kindness, pity. See {Pious}, and cf. {Piety}.] 1. Piety. [Obs.] --Wyclif. 2. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration. He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord. --Prov. xix. 17. He . . . has no more pity in him than a dog. --Shak. 3. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted. ``The more the pity.'' --Shak. What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! --Addison. Note: In this sense, sometimes used in the plural, especially in the colloquialism: ``It is a thousand pities.'' Syn: Compassion; mercy; commiseration; condolence; sympathy, fellow-suffering; fellow-feeling. -- {Pity}, {Sympathy}, {Compassion}. Sympathy is literally fellow-feeling, and therefore requiers a certain degree of equality in situation, circumstances, etc., to its fullest exercise. Compassion is deep tenderness for another under severe or inevitable misfortune. Pity regards its object not only as suffering, but weak, and hence as inferior.
\Pit"y\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pitied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Pitying}.] 1. To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering. Like as a father pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear him. --Ps. ciii. 13. 2. To move to pity; -- used impersonally. [Obs.] It pitieth them to see her in the dust. --Bk. of Com. Prayer.
\Pit"y\, v. i. To be compassionate; to show pity. I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy. --Jer. xiii. 14.

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