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

1. noun. Piety.
2. noun. A feeling for the sufferings or distresses of another or others; sympathy with the grief or misery of another; compassion; fellow-feeling; commiseration.
3. noun. A reason or cause of pity, grief, or regret; a thing to be regretted.
4. transitive 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.
5. transitive verb. To move to pity; -- used impersonally.
6. intransitive verb. To be compassionate; to show pity.
7. noun. the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it

   Synonyms: compassion

8. noun. an unfortunate development

   "it's a pity he couldn't do it"

   Synonyms: shame

9. noun. a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others

   "the blind are too often objects of pity"

   Synonyms: commiseration, pathos, ruth

10. verb. share the suffering of

    Synonyms: compassionate

Synonyms

compassion, shame, commiseration, pathos, ruth, compassionate

Common word forms

pitied, pitier, pities, pitying

Words from these letters

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