Meaning of pity | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something.
   uncountable
2. A feeling of sympathy at the misfortune or suffering of someone or something
3. Something regrettable.
   countable
4. To feel pity for or on account of: "No, he could not believe it a bad house; not such a house as a man was to be pitied for having" (Jane Austen)."An office worker pitied his confinement and slipped in to give him a loaf of bread" (Eric Scigliano).
5. Something regrettable
6. Piety.
   Early, Modern, countable, obsolete, uncountable
7. To feel pity.
8. Piety
9. To show compassion for.
10. To feel pity for (someone or something). .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
11. have or take pity, to have compassion or show mercy.
12. To make (someone) feel pity; to provoke the sympathy or compassion of
13. To experience or express compassion:ache, commiserate, compassionate, feel, sympathize, yearn.
14. to feel pity for (someone). She pitied him; She is to be pitied. jammer kry يَشْفَق على съжалявам lamentar (po)litovat, mít soucit bemitleiden have medlidenhed med λυπάμαι, συμπονώcompadecerse de, tener pena de, sentir pena por kaasa tundma دلسوزی کردن sääliä avoir pitié de לְרַחֵם तरस आना smilovati se, žaliti (meg)sajnál mengasihani vorkenna compatire, avere pietà di 哀れむ 동정하다 gailėti, užjausti žēlot; just līdz merasa simpati medelijden hebben metføle medlidenhet med, ha vondt av litować się ...
15. pitiful. a piteous cry/sight. jammerlik مُثير للعَطْف والشَّفَقَه жалък lamentoso úpěnlivý, žalostný, soucitný mitleiderregend hjerteskærende οικτρός, θλιβερόςlastimero, lastimoso, patético hale ترحم انگیز säälittävä pitoyable מְעוֹרֵר רַחָמִים दयनीय jadan, bijedan szánalmas memilukan vorkunnsamur pietoso 哀れな 연민의 정을 자아내는 gailus, graudus bēdīgs; aizkustinošs menimbulkan rasa belas meelijwekkendynkelig, fortvilet żałosny دزړه، سوى ، دترحم وړ lamentoso (în mod) jalnic жалкий; жалобный úpenlivý, ...
16. jammerlik بِعَطْفٍ وَشَفَقَه жалко lamentosamente soucitně mitleiderregend hjerteskærende οικτρά, θλιβεράlastimosamente haletsusväärselt بطور ترحم انگیز säälittävästi pitoyablement בְּאוֹפֶן מְעוֹרֵר רַחָמִים दयनीय ढंग से jadno, bijedno szánalmasan penuh belas kasihan af vorkunnsemi pietosamente 哀れに 측은하게 gailiai žēli dgn cara yg menimbulkan rasa belas meelijwekkendynkelig, fortvilet żałośnie درحم وړ، دزړه سوۍ دخواخوږى وړ، دزړه سواندى له مخى lamentosamente jalnic жалко súcitne usmiljenja vredn...
17. jammerlikheid عَطْف وَشَفَقَه жалост tristeza dojímavost das Mitleid det at være hjerteskærende οίκτος condición lastimosa/patético haletsusväärsus ترحم säälittävyys état piteux עליבות दयनीयता bijeda sajnálatra/szánalomra méltó volta vminek belas kasihan vorkunnsemi (stato pietoso) 哀れさ 측은함 gailumas žēlums keadaan yg menimbulkan rasa belas zieligheid ynkelighet, fortvilethet żałosny stan ترحم tristeza stare jalnică жалость dojímavosť usmiljenja vredno stanje sažaljivost ömklighet ความสงสาร acı...
18. pitiful. He was in a pitiable condition; He made a pitiable attempt. jammerlike مُثير للشَّفَقَه، يُرْثى له жалък lamentável žalostný mitleiderregend ynkværdig; sørgelig αξιολύπητοςlamentable, penoso hale ترحم انگیز؛ اسف بار säälittävä pitoyableעלוב दयनीय, दया का पात्र jadan, bijedan szánalomra méltó memilukan aumkunarverður, átakanlegur pietoso みじめな 측은한 apgailėtinas, vertas užuojautos nožēlojams; bēdīgs menimbulkan rasa belas zieligsørgelig, jammerlig żałosny دزړه سواندى وړ، دترټلووړ، lament...

Equivalents

Examples

“I can't feel any pity towards the gang, who got injured while attempting to break into a flat.”

“take pity on someone”

“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.”

“He[…]has no more pity in him than a dog.”

“The most usuall way to appease those minds we have offended […] is, by submission to move them to commiseration and pitty.”

“Shepard: The Reapers are more advanced than we are. More powerful. More intelligent. They don't fear us, and they'll never take pity on us.”

“It's a pity you're feeling unwell because there's a party on tonight.”

“What a pity about the band breaking up. I loved them!”

“It was a thousand pities.”

“What pity is it / That we can die but once to serve our country!”

“It is a thousand pities that no more detailed records than those of the guard's journals are available, but enough is known to establish them firmly among the finest feats ever achieved by "A3" Pacifics.”

“Euen so on the other syde a mans harte is contrite, when it is cutte with compunction, mollified with pitie and deuotion, moued with prayers and exhortation, is affraide by threatninges, allured by kindnes, ashamed of dishonesty, geuing place to Gods inspiration, […]”

“A maruellous stoutnesse of a mans minde, accompanied vvith pitie tovvardes his countrie. When Lucius Scilla had ouercom by force of armes the Citie of Preyneste he gaue leaue and commission to the Souldiers that they should destroye it, and kyll all the Citizens sauing his Host, meaning with this good turne to shewe himselfe thankfull vnto hym, for manye curtesies receiued of hym at other times in his lodging. But that valiant Citizen hering of this commission, went foorth incontinently out of his house disguised & preasing in among other of his countrimen, sayd, that he had rather die, than owe his life to the destroyer of his countrie.”

“The Church of Rome beyng moued neither with pitie, zeale, truth, reasõ, nor honesty, but onely with ambition and couetousnesse refuseth none, so they will shew thẽ selues to be of that Catholicke Church. Traytours, murtherers, theeues, coseners, cutters, adulters, baudes, strumpets and all other gracelesse persons may vpon the sayd cõditiõ haue safe accesse to Rome and be of that Church.”

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