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. Judith Pugh:

   Motherhood is a wonderful thing - what a pity to waste it on children.

2. Aristotle:

   guess he wasnt a lotus eater-the frowned people of today-the land which time forgot to change-was the guru of alexandar the great-pity the lotus eaters(qoute the time machine)-my tribute to all the fallen ones-the lotus eaters-rest in peace in grave-pity you didnt have machiavellian persons like him to teach-the dear departed ones-let them at least know peace in their grave.

3. Kurt Vonnegut:

   I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade.

4. André Gide:

   Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

5. Anthony Liccione:

   Society will always be by your side. Society will let you die with no pity. Society is social suicide. Cold or hot in an untold wind, society folds the perfect creases to all four corners of a blanket we all lay under.”