Usually means: Compassion for others' suffering, misfortune.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. pity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pity: Merriam-Webster
  3. pity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pity: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pity: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pity, pity: Wordnik
  8. pity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. pity: Wiktionary
  10. pity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. pity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. pity: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Pity, pity: Dictionary.com
  14. pity (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. pity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Pity (William Blake), Pity (film), Pity: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Pity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. pity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. pity: Rhymezone
  20. pity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. pity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. pity: FreeDictionary.org
  23. pity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. pity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. pity: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pity: Legal dictionary

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  1. pity: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pity: Idioms

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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (uncountable) A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
▸ noun:  (countable) Something regrettable.
▸ noun:  (obsolete, Early Modern) Piety.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To feel pity for (someone or something).
▸ verb:  (transitive, now regional) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.

Similar:
ruth, commiseration, shame, compassionate, feel for, compassion, pathos, condole with, sympathize with, pitty, more...

Opposite:
contempt, disdain, scorn, indifference, mercilessness

Types:
schadenfreude, catharsis, compassion, empathy, more...

Phrases:
with pity, have pity, took pity, take pity, Pity Me, more...

Adjectives:
great, self, such, more, least, infinite, only, deepest, god, profound, real

Colors:
    lavender,     mauve,     pale blue,     soft pink,     gray, more...


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Similar:
ruth, commiseration, shame, compassionate, feel for, compassion, pathos, condole with, sympathize with, pitty, more...

Opposite:
contempt, disdain, scorn, indifference, mercilessness

Types:
schadenfreude, catharsis, compassion, empathy, more...

Phrases:
with pity, have pity, took pity, take pity, Pity Me, taking pity, self pity, takes pity, pity party, more's the pity, mores the pity, take pity on, had pity, has pity, have pity on, having pity, Appeal to pity, more...

Adjectives:
great, self, such, more, least, infinite, only, deepest, god, profound, real

Colors:
    lavender,     mauve,     pale blue,     soft pink,     gray, more...



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