Results for pity
Definitions of pity:
part of speech: past tense, past participle
Pitied.
part of speech: noun
Sympathy with distress: a subject of pity or grief.
part of speech: verb transitive
To sympathize with; to feel sorry for.
part of speech: verb transitive
To sympathize with:- pa. t. and pa. p. pitied.
part of speech: noun
Compassion or sorrow excited by the distress or sufferings of another; fellow suffering or feeling; compassion accompanied with some act of charity; sympathy; a thing to be regretted; a thing to be looked upon as a misfortune, as, “ the more is the pity”; used in the plu., as, “ it is a thousand pities, that is, it is a thing to be very much regretted.
part of speech: present participle
Usage examples for pity:
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It's a pity but, if he won't see by himself that he's a fool, I don't see what we can do to make it clear.
"Men, Women and Guns", H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile -
What a pity you are married!
"Kildares of Storm", Eleanor Mercein Kelly -
In those first days she sometimes asked him, " Did you do it out of love, or was it pity only?"
"Tommy and Grizel", J.M. Barrie -
Poor fellow, I pity him!
"Between Whiles", Helen Hunt Jackson