Thesaurus:pity
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]Sense: to feel sympathy for the misfortune, suffering or misery of another
[edit]Synonyms
[edit]- commiserate
- compassion [⇒ thesaurus] (obsolete)
- compassionate (archaic)
- condole (obsolete)
- feel someone's pain (figurative)
- feel sorry for
- mercify (obsolete, rare)
- pity
- rue (archaic)
- take pity
Hyponyms
[edit]- bepity (archaic)
Hypernyms
[edit]- be sad [⇒ thesaurus]
- feel for (idiomatic)
- sympathize
Various
[edit]See also
[edit]- Thesaurus:compassion (noun)
- Thesaurus:what a pity (interjection)
- Thesaurus:憐惜
Further reading
[edit]- “914. pity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
- “pity” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.