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

Pitying.

Usage examples for pity:

• 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