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pity

[ pit-ee ]

noun

plural pities.
  1. sympathetic or kindly sorrow evoked by the suffering, distress, or misfortune of another, often leading one to give relief or aid or to show mercy:

    to feel pity for a starving child.

    Synonyms: ,

  2. a cause or reason for pity, sorrow, or regret:

    What a pity you could not go!



adjective

  1. motivated by a sense of pity or sympathy for others or for oneself:

    It seems he got the pity vote because of his personality, but his singing just wasn鈥檛 that great.

verb (used with object)

pitied, pitying.
  1. to feel pity or compassion for; be sorry for; commiserate with.

verb (used without object)

pitied, pitying.
  1. to have compassion; feel pity.

pity

/ 藞辫瑟迟瑟 /

noun

  1. sympathy or sorrow felt for the sufferings of another
  2. have pity on or take pity on
    to have sympathy or show mercy for
  3. something that causes regret or pity
  4. an unfortunate chance

    what a pity you can't come

  5. more's the pity
    it is highly regrettable (that)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. tr to feel pity for
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 藞辫颈迟测颈苍驳, adjective
  • 藞辫颈迟测颈苍驳ly, adverb
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 辞耻迟路辫颈迟路测 verb (used with object) outpitied outpitying
  • 耻苍路辫颈迟路颈别诲 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pity1

First recorded in 1175鈥1225; Middle English pite, from Old French pite, earlier pitet, from Latin 辫颈别迟腻迟- (stem of 辫颈别迟腻蝉 鈥渄utiful respect, sense of duty鈥); piety none
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of pity1

C13: from Old French 辫颈迟茅, from Latin 辫颈别迟腻蝉 duty
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Idioms and Phrases

Idioms
  1. have / take pity, to show mercy or compassion.

More idioms and phrases containing pity

see for one's (pity's) sake ; take pity on .
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Example Sentences

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But the performance allows no room for pity, a feat even truer of his costar Moore, a crucial figure in future L.A.

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LeBlanc never moves her camera away from the ground level; there are no policy prescriptions, no litanies of statistics and no melodramatic statements about pity or persistence.

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Aristotle later described tragedy鈥檚 capacity, through evoking pity and fear, to stir moral reflection in its audience.

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"From pride to pity, that was devastating," Foreman said of the loss.

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I just couldn't believe I'd lost the world title", he said, adding: "It went from pride to pity.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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