PITY

Pity

Pity means feeling for others, particularly feelings of sadness or sorrow, and is used in a comparable sense to the more modern words "sympathy" and "empathy". Through insincere usage, it can also have a more unsympathetic connotation of feelings of superiority or condescension.

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pity

Noun

  1. A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
  2. Something regrettable.
    It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.
  3. piety

Verb

  1. To feel pity for (someone or something).
  2. To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.

Interjection

  1. Short form of what a pity.


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