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pity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of pity

1 a regrettable or blameworthy act

  • itʼs a pity the woodchuck ate all the flowers after you put so much effort into the garden
Synonyms of pity

crime, disgrace, shame, sin
Words Related to pity

outrage, scandal

2 the capacity for feeling for anotherʼs unhappiness or misfortune

  • a woman of boundless pity who tried to care for every abandoned animal she found
Synonyms of pity

bigheartedness, charity, commiseration, compassion, feeling, good-heartedness, heart, humanity, kindheartedness, kindliness, kindness, largeheartedness, mercy, ruth, softheartedness, sympathy, warmheartedness
Words Related to pity

feelings, responsiveness, sensibility, sensitivity

affection, love, regard

affinity, empathy, rapport

altruism, benevolence, benignancy, benignity, generosity, goodwill, humaneness, humanism, humanitarianism, philanthropy
Near Antonyms of pity

callousness, coldness, disinterest, indifference, unconcern

cruelty, harshness

animosity, antipathy, dislike, hatred, hostility
Antonyms of pity

coldheartedness, hard-heartedness, inhumanity, inhumanness, mercilessness, pitilessness

Synonym Discussion of pity

pity, compassion, commiseration, condolence, sympathy mean the act or capacity for sharing the painful feelings of another. pity implies tender or sometimes slightly contemptuous sorrow for one in misery or distress.
    • felt pity for the captives
compassion implies pity coupled with an urgent desire to aid or to spare.
    • treats the homeless with great compassion
commiseration suggests pity expressed outwardly in exclamations, tears, or words of comfort.
    • murmurs of commiseration filled the loser's headquarters
condolence applies chiefly to formal expression of grief to one who has suffered loss.
    • expressed their condolences to the widow
sympathy often suggests a tender concern but can also imply a power to enter into another's emotional experience of any sort.
    • went to my best friend for sympathy
    • in sympathy with her desire to locate her natural parents

pity

verb

Synonyms and Antonyms of pity

to have sympathy for

  • I always pity the people who have to work in this freezing weather
Synonyms of pity

ache (for), bleed (for), commiserate (with), compassionate, condole (with), feel (for), sympathize (with), yearn (over)
Words Related to pity

care (for)

grieve (for), sorrow (for)

love

empathize (with), identify (with)

tolerate, understand
Near Antonyms of pity

disregard, ignore, neglect, overlook

dislike, hate, scorn

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