Another word for pity
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Noun
Sympathetic, sad concern for someone in misfortune
See also:A great disappointment or regrettable fact
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Verb
To experience or express compassion
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Another word for pity
Noun
Compassionate feeling
Anything that might move one to pity, sense 1
Verb
To feel pity for
Antonyms:To be merciful to
Idioms:
have or take pity on
Synonym Study
- Condolence now usually implies a formal expression of sympathy with another in deep sorrow a letter of condolence
- Sympathy , in this connection, implies such kinship of feeling as enables one to really understand or even to share the sorrow, trouble, etc. of another a friend I can always turn to for sympathy
- Commiseration implies openly expressed feelings of pity or sympathetic sorrow she wept with her friend in commiseration
- Compassion implies sorrow for another's sufferings or trouble accompanied by an urge to help or spare moved by compassion, they did not press for payment
- Pity implies sorrow felt for another's suffering or misfortune, sometimes connoting slight contempt because the object is regarded as weak or inferior he felt pity for a man so ignorant
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