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

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

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  1. pity: Encyclopedia

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  1. pity: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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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,     gray,     lilac,     periwinkle,     pastel yellow,     cream,     peach,     silver


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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,     gray,     lilac,     periwinkle,     pastel yellow,     cream,     peach,     silver



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