Word Definition

Pity

  1. To be compassionate; to show pity.
  2. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
  3. To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
  4. Piety.
  5. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
  6. To feel pity or compassion for; to have sympathy with; to compassionate; to commiserate; to have tender feelings toward (any one), awakened by a knowledge of suffering.