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pity🔊

A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.

💬 Quotations
And pity, like a naked new-born babe, / Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubin, hors’d / Upon the sightless couriers of the air, / Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, / That tears shall drown the wind.

Something regrettable.

(obsolete, Early Modern) Piety.

To feel pity for (someone or something).

(now regional) To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of.

Used to express regret or disappointment about an unfortunate event or piece of information.

📑 Synonyms: shame what a pity what a shame