Synonyms for pity
ˈpɪt ipity

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1. pityinterjection

   Synonyms:
   what a shame, shame, what a pity

2. pitynoun

   Short form of what a pity.

   Synonyms:
   what a pity, shame, what a shame

3. pitynoun

   (countable but not used in the plural) Something regrettable.

   Synonyms:
   shame

4. pitynoun

   Synonyms:
   ruth

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1. pity

   Pity is a feeling of grief or pain aroused by the weakness, misfortunes, or distresses of others, joined with a desire to help or relieve. Sympathy (feeling or suffering with) implies some degree of equality, kindred, or union; pity is for what is weak or unfortunate, and so far, at least, inferior to ourselves; hence, pity is often resented where sympathy would be welcome. We have sympathy with one in joy or grief, in pleasure or pain, pity only for those in suffering or need; we may have sympathy with the struggles of a giant or the triumphs of a conqueror; we are moved with pity for the captive or the slave. Pity may be only in the mind, but mercy does something for those who are its objects. Compassion, like pity, is exercised only with respect to the suffering or unfortunate, but combines with the tenderness of pity the dignity of sympathy and the active quality of mercy. Commiseration is as tender as compassion, but more remote and hopeless; we have commiseration for sufferers whom we can not reach or can not relieve. Condolence is the expression of sympathy. Compare MERCY.

   Synonyms:
   commiseration, compassion, condolence, mercy, sympathy, tenderness

   Antonyms:
   barbarity, brutality, cruelty, ferocity, hard-heartedness, hardness, harshness, inhumanity, mercilessness, pitilessness, rigor, ruthlessness, severity, sternness, truculence

   Preposition:
   >Pity on or upon that which we help or spare; pity for that which we merely contemplate; "have pity upon me, O ye my friends," Job xix, 21; "pity for a horse o'erdriven," Tennyson In Memoriam lxii, st. 1.

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1. pity

   Synonyms:
   mercy, compassion, tenderness, commiseration, ruth, sympathy, condolence

   Antonyms:
   cruelty, hardheartedness, relentlessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness

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1. commiseration, pity, ruth, pathosnoun

   a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

   "the blind are too often objects of pity"

   Synonyms:
   compassion, poignancy, ruth, commiseration, pathos, shame, condolence

2. pity, shamenoun

   an unfortunate development

   "it's a pity he couldn't do it"

   Synonyms:
   disgrace, ignominy, ruth, commiseration, pathos, shame, compassion

3. compassion, pityverb

   the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

   Synonyms:
   shame, commiseration, pathos, compassionateness, compassion, ruth

4. feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize withverb

   share the suffering of

   Synonyms:
   condole with, feel for, compassionate, sympathize with

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1. pitynoun

   Synonyms:
   compassion, commiseration, sympathy, fellow-feeling, bowels of compassion, melting mood

2. pityverb

   Synonyms:
   commiserate, compassionate, sympathize with, feel for, have pity or compassion for, feel sorry for, condole with

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1. pitynoun

   Synonyms:
   compassion, mercy, ruth, commiseration, condolence, sympathy

2. pityverb

   Synonyms:
   have pity for, condole with, commiserate

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1. List of paraphrases for "pity":

   regrettable, mercy, shame, penalty, regret, compassion, damage, punishment, sentence, please, injury, disgrace, sin, worth

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1. Charles Cooley:

   One who shows signs of mental aberration is, inevitably, perhaps, but cruelly, shut off from familiar, thoughtless intercourse, partly excommunicated; his isolation is unwittingly proclaimed to him on every countenance by curiosity, indifference, aversion, or pity, and in so far as he is human enough to need free and equal communication and feel the lack of it, he suffers pain and loss of a kind and degree which others can only faintly imagine, and for the most part ignore.

2. Mariz Doss:

   The first time I ever went out on the streets to run was with Cairo Runners, whenever I traveled outside Egypt I saw that people had the opportunity to run outside in their own country, and I thought it was a pity that we didn't have this in Egypt.

3. Author Unknown:

   Vacant minds must have their uses, yet it seems a pity to waste first-class bodies on them.

4. An Environment Ministry official:

   It would be a pity if false statements had been submitted, and we are determined to enforce the regulations rigorously. But we have no plan to scrap the current ivory registration system or close the legitimate (domestic) market.

5. Clifford Villalon:

   Give alms to the needy because you want to do it, not because of pity.