Dictionary Entry
pity
pity is a 4-letter English word with 10 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Piety. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 10 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
Piety.
- 2noun
A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
- 3noun
A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
- 4transitive verb
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.
- 5transitive verb
To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
- 6intransitive verb
To be compassionate; to show pity.
- 7noun
the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
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- 8noun
an unfortunate development
"it's a pity he couldn't do it"
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- 9noun
a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others
"the blind are too often objects of pity"
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- 10verb
share the suffering of
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